Defining my Passion

I realized the other day the core structure of what I enjoy about pursuing an intellectual life. It collapses cleanly into three things.

1. Learning interesting things about how the world works, capturing them, articulating them, and documenting them.

2. Solving real-world problems using this organized knowledge.

3. Sharing and discussing with others both the models and how they can be used to affect change.

It’s a splendid cycle.

This is what I am doing already, and all potential future endeavors will be judged against these criteria.

It feels great to know, without question, what you want to be when you grow up.