I am a scientist by training, with a PhD in molecular cell biology.
I have written two books. Threshold is a nonfiction account of how the mechanism that fires a neuron also ends a relationship, collapses an organization, and triggers a market crash, and how to see the crossing before it happens. On the Advantage of Being Unknown is a literary fiction about a narrator whose intelligence is a prison. He analyzes every smile, every conversation, every feeling until all of it dissolves into performance, and he cannot stop seeing it.
I run two YouTube channels. The Discomfort of Being Conscious is a philosophy channel on the futility of existence, the illusions of free will, and the unbearable weight of memory. Expect long-winded contradictory arguments, existential despair, and the occasional sentimental digression about madeleines and humiliating social encounters. Biotherapeutic Analytics is the opposite: practical, technical, aimed at scientists who need to speak fluently about the analytical science behind biologics.
There is also this: I am Hazara, and for a long time the Hazara community had no real home on the internet - no authoritative, permanent place that took our history, culture, and diaspora seriously. So I built one. Hazara United (hazaraunited.org) is my attempt to fix that: a platform for the global Hazara community that treats our story as worth telling carefully and keeping permanently. It is a work in progress, as these things always are.
Outside of all this: I read widely, I spend time in nature hiking and camping, I dabble in woodworking, and I am slowly working through the physics I did not have time to study during my PhD.
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