An Engineer's Guide to Anatta: Non-Self, Identity, and Suffering for Engineers and Data Leaders

By Abhay Singh

Engineers are trained to optimize systems, not selves. Yet the same logical mind that designs distributed architectures often struggles with identity, ego, and burnout. In this book, Abhay Singh translates the Buddhist teaching of anatta (non-self) into an engineer's language.

Drawing on years in data and analytics leadership, Singh treats the "self" as an evolving system: a bundle of processes, stories, and feedback loops rather than a fixed entity. Using metaphors from software architecture, data pipelines, and incident management, he shows how clinging to a rigid identity creates technical debt in our emotional lives-brittle egos, chronic stress, and unnecessary suffering at work.

In An Engineer's Guide to Anatta, you'll learn how to:
- See thoughts, emotions, and roles (manager, architect, parent) as transient processes instead of who you fundamentally are
- Debug recurring patterns of conflict and burnout using "mental observability"
- Design workplace relationships with less reactivity and more compassion
- Hold ambition responsibly, without collapsing into either arrogance or helplessness
- Integrate meditation, reflection, and ethical clarity into high-pressure engineering cultures

This is not a self-help book of motivational slogans. It is a precise, unflinching guide to seeing how the mind actually works, written for people who think in diagrams, models, and systems. If your life looks successful on paper but still feels misaligned inside, An Engineer's Guide to Anatta offers a rigorous, deeply humane way to re-architect the relationship you have with yourself and with the work you build.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G2YDRBMJ
• ISBN13: 9798275147469
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"