I have spent the past three months in the company of a man who used to design algorithms for machines and now designs frameworks for living. Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer of Google X, wrote four books that I’ve devoured in succession: “Scary Smart”, “Unstressable”, “Solve for Happy” and “That Little Voice In Your Head: Adjust the Code That Runs Your Brain”.
On paper, he’s an engineer. In spirit, he’s a philosopher. And somewhere between those two identities lies a way of thinking about the human condition that I’ve come to love deeply. For someone like me, who has always found comfort in the precision of mathematics, his approach to human experience is strangely satisfying.
