Twelve snapshots of life on Earth in 2022 — As the world returned to normal, I traveled to places close to and far from home. I walked Amsterdam streets and Oregon sand with my camera in hand. This year — with my mid-twenties bearing down on me — I spent a good amount of time thinking about what the rest of my life might have in store. While I have no idea what those future years will look like, here is what 2022 looked like to me:

Investigating the Effects of “Donations” to Docs on Drug Prescriptions — “I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.” - Modern Hippocratic Oath Each…

Bitcoin. The cryptocurrency-turned-galactic-buzzword has a big problem and it has nothing to do with devaluation. Just so we’re all on the same page, let’s start with some background. If you’re already a blockchain and crypto-mining wizard, feel free to scroll on down.

Ten snapshots of life on Earth in 2021 —

This year, I was poked in the arm three times, I found out my neighbor invented the Pumpkin Spice Latte, and I talked to people, a lot. Here’s some of what I learned from conversations in a pandemic-ridden world: In 2012, at a busy Seattle beach, a teenager dove 85…

My top ten snapshots of life on Earth… —

This year, I graduated from college in my pajamas from a living room in Montana, bonded with a cat through quarantine, traveled across seven different states to be reunited with that cat, and learned about the subtleties and quirks of a crazy 2020 world. Here’s some of what I learned: …

Few things are so easy yet have such a great impact down the line — My first exposure to programming came my freshman year of college. A bright-eyed kid sitting in the back of a stuffy lecture hall staring at that first Introduction to Programming & Problem-Solving in Java slide. After introducing variables and their declarations, our professor devoted an entire section of the PowerPoint…

Staying physically distant but socially close — These past three weeks have been the most turbulent of my life; plans canceled, packing up and moving across the country on a moment’s notice, a constant fear of infection and infecting. And yet, my problems are minute in comparison to those of the newly-unemployed, the grieving, the nurses, the…