Welcome!
This website has three inter-related purposes.
First, it gives me the opportunity to organize some of the
print and web resources in my areas of interest that have for
some reason caught my attention. This, in turn, is meant to
rationalize my ongoing effort to put together apparently
unrelated pieces of knowledge that I stumbled upon in the
past as well as those that I will come across in the future.
The hope that animates this effort is that, if I can wait long
enough and apply the necessary discipline, a coherent and
credible picture is going to emerge. The world wide web, with
its unique capacity for non-linear linkages, seems to me the
ideal medium for this purpose.
Second, the public nature of the web also allows me to
perform the above tasks of organization and link-building not
in the potentially deceptive solitude of my subjective world
but under the critical scrutiny of you and other friends who
can provide the all-important element of reality-check.
Knowledge, after all, is best gained in community; the larger
the community, the greater the number of possible
challenges to one's conclusions. With each criticism or
difference in viewpoint that is taken seriously, a slight
decline in the possibility of error takes place.
Third, to learn in community is to constantly share the fruits
of what one has learned. Knowledge is not only refined and
improved through sharing, it also grows exponentially when
it is made to circulate in ever-widening communities of
truth-seekers. Knowledge that flows remains fresh, as
opposed to knowledge that fortifies itself, either due to
stinginess or fear of loss, and thereby becomes stagnant. This
website, then, will only fulfill its mission when it begins to
benefit you at least as much as it benefits me. In fact, it will
be most beneficial to me only when it starts benefiting others
more than it can ever benefit me.
First, it gives me the opportunity to organize some of the
print and web resources in my areas of interest that have for
some reason caught my attention. This, in turn, is meant to
rationalize my ongoing effort to put together apparently
unrelated pieces of knowledge that I stumbled upon in the
past as well as those that I will come across in the future.
The hope that animates this effort is that, if I can wait long
enough and apply the necessary discipline, a coherent and
credible picture is going to emerge. The world wide web, with
its unique capacity for non-linear linkages, seems to me the
ideal medium for this purpose.
Second, the public nature of the web also allows me to
perform the above tasks of organization and link-building not
in the potentially deceptive solitude of my subjective world
but under the critical scrutiny of you and other friends who
can provide the all-important element of reality-check.
Knowledge, after all, is best gained in community; the larger
the community, the greater the number of possible
challenges to one's conclusions. With each criticism or
difference in viewpoint that is taken seriously, a slight
decline in the possibility of error takes place.
Third, to learn in community is to constantly share the fruits
of what one has learned. Knowledge is not only refined and
improved through sharing, it also grows exponentially when
it is made to circulate in ever-widening communities of
truth-seekers. Knowledge that flows remains fresh, as
opposed to knowledge that fortifies itself, either due to
stinginess or fear of loss, and thereby becomes stagnant. This
website, then, will only fulfill its mission when it begins to
benefit you at least as much as it benefits me. In fact, it will
be most beneficial to me only when it starts benefiting others
more than it can ever benefit me.
Ahmed Afzaal's Website
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