reading more
Thu, 16 Oct 2025
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I really love reading. So much so that I find myself estranged from my early years when I’d rather do anything but read.
In books I find other worlds, I find a dialogue with people long passed, I find a medium to make me truly think. But all this literary romance leaves me with a very strange feeling: I always want to read more.
I’ve started to take my reading a bit more seriously and put together a reading list. I’ve even started ticking off books, but the appetite remains, and maybe even grows.
I feel strangely between worlds. I love detail, precision, definitions and rigorous proofs. I love the mechanics of abstract machines, the interplay of mystery and curiosity in the search for answers, the vast taxonomies and syntax of so many worlds devoid of man. Yet I also love reflections on our common condition, wrestles with suffering and grief, considerations of purpose and happiness - the seeming ‘fluffy’ stuff that really constitutes our lives.
Ultimately, these loves unify in my faith which I hope to place at the core of my life and passions. I love maths because in it I see the beauty of God: his orderliness and genius. Computer science, is both deeply mathematical and is also an expression of man’s wrestle with power, intelligence and creation. I truly think that computer science is (or at least can be) profoundly human and an extension of our search for God.
I love language because I love a God who is articulate in history. A God who paints with galaxies and enters into the great drama of creation. In the face of God, humanity, our struggles, and our passions become supremely meaningful. I love the breadth of humanity captured in sacred scripture - the bitter complaint of lament that blooms into worship, the rolling verses of the psalmists as they reflect upon divine character, the dense theological expositions in the epistles.
What a world to explore.
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