Welcome!

Hi, I'm Manan Khattar. I'm a software engineer living in San Francisco. Welcome to my website.

Here's what I'm doing now.

I'm interested in a lot of things (productivity, technology, music, sports), but I'm probably most obsessed with the idea of eudaimonia, which roughly translates as "the state of living well". From Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics[1]:

"Verbally there is a very general agreement; for both the general run of men and people of superior refinement say that it is [eudaimonia], and identify living well and faring well with being happy; but with regard to what [eudaimonia] is they differ, and the many do not give the same account as the wise. For the former think it is some plain and obvious thing like pleasure, wealth or honour..."

I spend a lot of time trying to answer Aristotle's question -- what activities and pursuits enable one to live well. Here are some of the notes I've taken in service of that goal, which may be useful starting points to this website:

[1]: §21; 1095a15–22