"What was it like in re-education camp, Auntie Three?". My eight-year-old eyes sparkled with curiosity as my aunt embarked on yet another fable about her trials and tribulations in the ‘Hanoi Hilton’. "Ohh… I was relieved to have friends during those times," she chuckled in Vietnamese. “I was lucky even to have sold enough sticky rice to bribe the guards!” On other occasions, my aunt would reminisce with stories of hiding from communist tax collectors, selling playing cards smuggled from...

I’ve developed a seemingly-harmless habit: loopholing my life. Whether it’s debugging, automating, or multitasking, I hunt for modern solutions in an archaic past. A middle-man merchant of an underlying Web2.0, soon Web3.0 economy. I’m a nerd, I know. Perhaps you’ve heard it: ‘The Metaverse’. In an era of decentralization, I picked up my rustic keyboard to join the front-lines in innovation. You’d be surprised how ‘Atomic Habits’ transforms you (a gem, but a one-time read)....

I sell opportunities for a living. While others sell Oreos, I sell vending machines. While others sell services like cleaning your car, I sell the car wash. Every weekend, I lurk my favorite website: 'BizBuySell.com.' As much as I'd like to buy my own coin-laundromat, a 17-year old dependent living on reduced lunch waivers probably can’t. Can’t or won’t? Most proletariats see opportunities but are disuaded by technical hurdles, hence the aphorism, "the rich get...

No matter how long the days get, I can always find solace in hearing the words, "I'm out." Whether it's cutting a royalty deal with the devil, Mr. Wonderful, or listening to Daymond John's half-baked advice, I must get my weekly dose of Shark Tank, 8/7c, every Friday. In my second-ever TV experience, my seven-year-old self witnessed the embodiment of capitalism, all from a 3.5-inch iPhone 4S. This marked the start of my love-and-hate relationship with the 'American Dream'. But...

I gasped at the stinging pain of the patient’s back: red streaks lined the shoulders, abdomen, and spine. The lubricated metal spoon pressed against an undisturbed-yet-irritated patient’s back in an attempt to push out the illness. My Medical/Hospital Careers internship's third week. Instead of Western antibiotic treatment, Eastern medicine practitioners recommend coining as an effective treatment for fevers. Thus, what fascinates me is striking a balance between Eastern and Western medicine at the intersection of business and...

My interest in Yale starts with a manuscript. Charles-Edward Winslow's manuscript to be exact. Winslow carefully crafted its composition while drafted as part of the lost generation in WWI by day, and legislator at the J.B. Pierce Laboratory at night. When you look up a trailblazer, Winslow's face should appear: Founder of CEA Winslow award, (Public Health's Nobel prize)l; Consultant to the World Health Organization; First male elected as the superintendent of the Yale Hospital School of Nursing....

Alexa, Amazon Echo. Audiobooks, podcasts, music all in a portable cylinder. Makes you wonder, is this the advent of tech? Like a genie, a library's information in an utter.I just have to ask questions.

Insurance companies HATE this weird trick... Medical Tourism: The clickbait economics behind the U.S.'s medical-industrial complex vs. developing nations.

1962's JFK. First, to thank him: the first president to put Medicare on the national agenda. But why? With his 2nd term election coming up, why campaign for something so controversial for his time?

Being a phlebotomist afraid of needles, I've heard the phrase "Be a man" more times than I've heard my Dad say, "I love you." And that's no coincidence. Society taught him—taught us—to be that way. Trapped in my ill-fitting lab coat, I've been mentored to be strong when I'm weak, tough when I'm in pain, cocky when I'm insecure. But that's not me. I'm a boy who lives with Sammy, an ikea polar bear and cuddle with him...