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Continue reading →: Kitchen Habits and Good Intentions: The Role of Defaults in Lasting ChangeOur kitchens tell the truth. Not about willpower — but about defaults. A January reflection on habits, environments, and why change sticks more often when we adjust what’s within arm’s reach.
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Continue reading →: Early January, According to My Phone (And Its Overloaded Camera Roll)A small reflection on post-holiday chaos, messy camera rolls, and why early January doesn’t need a reset — just a bit of quiet sorting.
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Continue reading →: Finding Clarity This New Year: Shift from Resolutions to IntentionsThe New Year often pressures people to set resolutions, leading to frustration by January’s end. Rather than seeking drastic changes, I feel the focus should be on calibration—reflecting on past experiences, aligning with long-term goals, and making small adjustments. This approach encourages meaningful reflection without the pressure of immediate reinvention.
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Continue reading →: What Salad Dressing Teaches Us About RelationshipsOil and vinegar don’t mix easily — and honestly, neither do people sometimes. But food science has a way of revealing gentle truths about relationships. This reflection explores what emulsions can teach us about getting along: timing, environment, connectors, and the quiet alchemy that helps very different things hold together.
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Continue reading →: Intuition: The Hidden Science Behind Our Gut Feelings and How it Shows up in Daily LifeWhat we call “intuition” is usually quiet science — pattern recognition, memory, and micro-signals our brains process long before we’re aware of them. From labs to kitchens to everyday life, here’s why intuition is more practical (and more reliable) than we think.
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Continue reading →: What Small Mistakes Teach Us: Lessons From Christmas Cookies & Baking Powder SurprisesSmall baking mistakes can teach us more than perfect recipes ever do. From German baking powder that behaved nothing like the version I grew up with to gluten-free Vanillekipferl that crumbled into dust, these tiny flops revealed how ingredients really work — and led to surprisingly creative outcomes.
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Continue reading →: 5 Cheese Rules to Navigate Digital TransformationDigital transformation may feel far removed from cheese-making — but the science behind how milk becomes cheese reveals surprising lessons about culture, conditions, and change. Here are five parallels that show why tools alone don’t create transformation — the environment around them does.
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Continue reading →: Lessons From the Overlap: Science, Change, and CuriosityExploring how fermentation failures, digital workflows, and everyday curiosity reveal the shared patterns of change across science, people, and systems.
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Continue reading →: Why I Started “At the Overlap ” and What You’ll Find HereA space exploring where food science, digital transformation, and everyday curiosity meet — thoughtful reflections on how people and systems adapt and grow.
Hello,
I’m Anisa Heck
— and this is At The Overlap
This blog is for people who live in the overlap — between science and intuition, structure and uncertainty, rules and real life.
It’s about noticing how systems behave, how people adapt, and how small signals often matter more than big plans.
I don’t write to give answers. I write to make complexity feel more navigable.
If you’re someone who loves learning, reflecting, and exploring ideas from different angles, you’ll feel at home here.
Thanks for stopping by — I’m glad you’re here.