I explore God's world, extracting meaning from God's creations.<p>A painter doesn't try to imitate the colors, lighting, subject. A food painter would try to capture the senses - taste, moisture, saltiness, spiciness, temperature. A painter of a scene would try to extract emotions; the fear and chaos of a battle, the sexual tension in a romance.<p>I choose to observe things in the world and extract what they're really about. I don't simply build features and observe analytics. I understand the pains of a user, the emotions, the process they work through it, their frustrations and joys.<p>I continually try to fix problems, and fix it a little better day after day.<p>Sometimes I choose myself as the subject for extracting meaning.<p>I wonder why my own body and mind is so flawed and what can be done to make it better. How to heal faster, to run better, what triggers emotions like fear and procrastination. I pick one thing I'm bad at and see what makes me improve on it. Or observe why I do sins even when I know I shouldn't.<p>I pick these flaws up, experiment and improve, or see what doesn't work. I also experiment with different philosophies and ideals, plant them as a New Year's Resolution, and see how that works out over a year.<p>There's a good deal of enjoyment when you successfully extract meaning from something and get better and better at it each year.<p>So, recursively, the purpose of my life is to get better at finding the purpose of my life.