This blog is named after traditional Iranian gardens called Chahar Baghs. Four Gardens. These structures are usually walled against the world, and quartered by four water channels meeting at some central structure.
Charbagh gardens represent an Achaemenid moral argument that we can, and should, take our patches of dust and impose order on them, and that such order can be so insightful beautiful that it can represent paradise.
In Isfahan, the city my family is from, our Charbagh is also where people still meet to debate, date, laugh, and just exist. It’s a place to be outside and to be alive.
I want this one to do the same work. It’s where the people I care about can collect wonder, in the form of distilled ideas and writing, and hand it to one another.
I’ve chosen four channels by which to organize writing in this blog.
These are more or less how the classical Iranian philosophers split knowledge up, and I don’t want to duplicate any of their hard work.
I appreciate you reading thus far. If you have an idea for how to plant flora in these four gardens please reach out (if you’re reading this you probably have my phone number). I’d love to read your writing.