Andre Chen

2025 — A Year Measured in Places, but Lived in Decisions 2025 wasn’t measured in kilometers, but in conversations, decisions, stages, silence, and growth. Different cities — same journey. I used to think travel was about distance. Airports. Miles. Time zones. In 2025, I learned it’s mostly about decisions. Some cities are neutral. Others confront you. A few quietly change the way you think. This year unfolded exactly like that. Switzerland came with its usual precision — Basel and Zurich...

How Education Is Changing ⭐ speak the truth “People don’t want titles anymore. They want the truth — the how, the experience, and the human behind the knowledge.” 🔥 translate research “You can show beautiful research, but if you don’t work in the clinic, you can’t translate it to the real world.” 🎯 Education-focused “Education must stop selling results and start teaching the process.” ❤️ Giving-back mindset “Build courses to teach, not to profit — and guide students to become better than...

Polished / Machined Collars: When Bone Doesn’t Read Textbooks There was a time when we were certain. Certain that bone does not attach to smooth surfaces. Certain that polished collars were the enemy of stability. Certain enough to transform assumptions into protocols. Looking back, I don’t think we were wrong. I think we were honest with what we knew at that time. I remember very clearly a discussion many years ago — a cold Tuesday, a very cold Tuesday — in downtown Manhattan, at the Marion...