How to create your very own personal medical records app in under 10 minutes using our Glide template. Step 1.) Make a Glide Account Go to https://www.glideapps.com/ and in the top right corner click on sign up. You will want to sign up with a google account, preferably one with a bit of storage as your application will live in its google drive. Step 2.) …

I have always been a “quirky” person. I pride myself on it. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area where diversity is as hip as avocado toast (for which I must also admit my love). I was incredibly privileged to have parents who did not see my differences…

The pandemic is the opportunity climate activists have been waiting for. When it comes to climate change, about half of Americans support climate activists. The greatest challenge to the goal of stopping climate change is the resistance to climate action that negatively impacts people’s standards of living. …

How my chronic illness journey lead me to a medical record solution. Have you ever taken a red eye flight after pulling an all nighter the day before? Imagine how you felt when you got off the plane, the aching joints and muscles and pure exhaustion. Too exhausted to eat…

How would 2016 look upon what has happened to American Democracy? On November 3rd 2016, I set an alarm on my phone. Repeating Google calendar alert. “Not normal.” Every Tuesday night, before I go to bed, I look that message in the face and become more and more distant from the shocked 17 year old high school student who wrote it.

What does it mean to be normal? — “My name is Samuel Fitz. I am 30 years old. I am immune to Orthohepevirus C. I can identify 437 standard edition Pantone test pallets,” Samuel recited, pulling absentmindedly at a curl of his dark wavy hair. “437, you really are gifted.” Samuel shrugged. “I hope I can help you.” …

Why We Need the Next Generation of Poll Workers. — What is Needed. As levels of polarization reach a boiling point in America, the ability to produce a trusted and fair election result is essential to allowing the country to pull together and continue the fight against COVID. Given that President Trump has already been showing signs that he may not concede the…

Coding as a linguistic skill. I’m certainly not the first to write about the value of teaching computer science to kids. There are numerous people from Tech CEO’s to teachers who will tell you why CS education should start young. …

Untangling the blockchains and why your crypto choice matters. I recently watched a video made by Economics Explained, a Youtube channel that I believe makes very good non-partisan economic videos. I highly recommend the channel as an unbiased educational Youtube creator. Therefore I was excited to see their recent video on Cryptocurrency released a few months ago. However, I saw that they made a common and key mistake that I see in most standard economic videos covering cryptocurrency: the assumption that Bitcoin is a good representation of what buying any cryptocurrency represents.