My best friend doesn’t have a role model to look up to, what can he do? — As your best friend, I know you. You used to have role models to aspire from, but you grew to a competent level that the people you used to look up to no longer excites you, or that the two of you are walking down different paths. I understand you…

My best friend is initially super excited about being able to switch into tech. As he finally makes it, he begins to feel scared by how everything seems to fall into place, and began to feel like a “retirement” life - climbing the career ladder, starting a family, buying a home, raising kids….. He is worried. — Similar to you, I have the same concerns. Based on my very limited knowledge, lack of context and knowledge, this is how I imagine my next 10 years will be like from 2021–2030.

My best friend always feels guilty about unable to control his weight loss and food intake. He’s the type that when he drinks some water, the next day he can gain 2kg of weight. He doesn’t know what he can do and how can this ever be solved. So over…

One of my 2021 new year resolution is to become a content creator. Since then, I created 6 videos so far. Starting from today. I’m starting active track my retrospections and process after I release every 5 videos. — Who is my target audience? My best friend in 2019, never done any interview before, does not know how to do a self introduction. Does not know what collaboration means. Does not know what interviewers want to hear. Does not know anything.

If you ever want to get into content creation but thinks your identity is still evolving, you still want to explore more, life has more possibilities, should you delay content creation? or is there a way to start? This is my advice and my rational for you: — I really understand that feeling thinking oh I am still young, I’m only in my 20s, I don’t want to be defined by one thing yet, I am an accumulation of alot of stuff. Being defined by one thing, for example, my job, is a very suffocating idea. …

Introduction During my Spring 2020 internship at PointClickCare, I applied our visualization library patterns to visualizing vitals for nurses that work in nursing facilities. I learned to appreciate the power of data visualization, and understand best practices for visualizing data. …

Introduction Following the discussion from How scientists decipher COVID-19 — Part 2: Sanger and Next Generation Sequencing, regarding the economic and technical limitations to using existing tools, IDseq is meant to provide an easy and accessible solution for detecting new pathogens. What are the limitations of existing tools? Economic limitations: tools require paid subscription, high system and storage…

Introduction Next Generation sequencing (NGS) is a vast improvement upon traditional sequencing methods such that the sequencing of the human genome can be shortened from ten years to one day. Despite the popularization, NGS has yet to be translated into routine clinical practice, and is currently only used for research purposes. How NGS works …

Introduction If you ever wonder about how scientists decipher the myth behind the novel virus COVID-19, this 3 part series of “How scientists decipher COVID-19” will provide you a brief understanding about: 1. PART 1: The metagenomic field. 2. PART 2: Sanger and Next Generation Sequencing — the methods used to…