Baking as Bonding: How Kitchen Time Builds Family Connections and Teaches Life Skills
More Than Just a Sweet Treat Baking is one of those quiet joys in life that often gets overlooked. For me, it’s more than a hobby or a way to satisfy a sweet tooth—it’s a space where my children and I connect, laugh, make a mess, and learn from one another. The kitchen has become […]
How Engineers Think About Health: Applying Systems Thinking to Personal Wellness
As a chemical engineer, I’ve been trained to approach problems with structure, logic, and precision. When I worked in biomimetics research or managed engineering projects in the medical field, everything came down to systems—how inputs, outputs, and feedback loops worked together to create desired results. Over time, I realized that this systems-based mindset doesn’t just […]
Transitioning from Corporate to Self-Employment: Lessons from an Engineer’s Journey
Leaving the security of a corporate job isn’t something most engineers are encouraged to do. Our world is built around structure, consistency, and predictability—things we’re trained to value and uphold. But at some point, I started to feel that the structured path I had worked so hard to build was no longer in alignment with […]
From Nature to Lab: How Biomimetics is Revolutionizing Modern Engineering
Discovering the Genius of Nature Growing up between Afghanistan and Pakistan, I was constantly surrounded by natural beauty—rugged mountains, resilient plants, intricate ecosystems that somehow thrived in even the harshest climates. I didn’t know it at the time, but those early observations of nature’s quiet brilliance would eventually shape my career path in engineering. Years […]