AJ Waters 12/23/25 AJ Waters 12/23/25

TheEngiNerdLife in Review

Every new endeavor we attempt to tackle comes with a lesson, but that lesson rarely reveals itself up front. No, instead it tends to sneak up on you and slap you across the face.

So, after a year of TheEngiNerdLife, I got smacked by a lesson in clarity. A lesson about how all this work educating others has actually been teaching me all along.

Teaching me what exactly? Well, in a true end-of-the-year reflective fashion, here are the seven things 2025 taught me.

A tall New York City skyscraper under construction with a red crane on top, partially covered with modern glass panels, next to an older building with traditional architecture.