I am a computer scientist by education, a software engineer by profession, an entrepreneur by accident, and an artist when I need a break from all of that. In this blog, I wander into technology, management, history, philosophy, and spirituality, both in English and Arabic. Beneath it all runs a single thread: my search for an understanding of the Human Context.
I am fascinated by people — the makers and the thinkers, the dreamers and the doers — and by the worlds that shape them and that they, in turn, reshape.
To understand people, you study psychology. Since people live in groups, you turn to sociology. To see how those groups distribute power, you read political theory. To grasp how they manage scarcity, you explore economics. To learn from the past, you dive into history. To enter people’s thoughts and how they express them, you wander through philosophy, literature, and linguistics. And to marvel at the modern world we’ve built, you must understand technology. Yet to ask why — to what end — you inevitably return to religion.
While scientists search for a “Theory of Everything” to explain the physical world, I’m drawn to a different pursuit: a “Unifying Theory” of the human context — a way to make sense of how it all fits together. In some way, this is my ongoing search for meaning itself.
AHMED BADRAN 