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

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. Generally trying hard to be a good person.

Thanks to rothsandro for the wonderful website template.

[1]: §21; 1095a15–22