Published My First Book: "An Engineer's Search for Meaning"!
Building a Framework for Finding Meaning, Purpose and Hope in Our Lives, Based on Evidence and Reason Alone
Happy to announce that I have just published my first book: An Engineer’s Search for Meaning!
This is a non-fiction book where I discuss my personal journey of looking for meaning, purpose and hope in my life, based on known scientific facts and reasoning alone. In the book I develop a framework for discovering meaning in life, that does not require one to rely on faith or any emotionally appealing but ultimately unprovable ideas.
In true engineering fashion, I am calling the current version "beta". At present it is in the form of a website, but I will publish eBook and PDF versions soon.
Just to give you a quick preview, here is the table of contents:
Preface
The Whole Book in 5 Minutes
The Whole Book in One Flowchart
New Concepts Developed in This Book
1. Motivation: A (Midlife) Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste
2. Premise: Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood...
3. Bottomline: If Not Evidence and Reason, Then What?
4. Methodology: Engineering the Sh*t Out of My Midlife Crisis
5. Ultimate Reality: Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns
6. Physical Reality: Hitting Rock Bottom?
7. Life: Entropy and the Pursuit of Complexity
8. Consciousness: A Way for the Cosmos to Know Itself
9. Meaning: Sorry Fellow Hitchhikers, It’s NOT 42!
10. Purpose: The Universe “Wants” You to “6CED”!
11. Hope: Past Performance is a Great Indicator of Future Results
12. Executive Summary: Use the MSE Framework to “6CED” in Life (and in Business)!
Rude Q&A
Afterword
Acknowledgements
References
The book straddles the categories of Popular Science and Philosophy. It should appeal to those who have a STEM background and are looking for a way to make their lives meaningful, purposeful and hopeful while avoiding the dissonance that comes with trying to reconcile their modern technological lives with religious or poetic ideas based on faith.
Any feedback on the book is greatly appreciated. It will help to improve the final version.
Thank you for your time and attention.