
Is medicine right for me?
Elements of medicine are fantastic but others can be upsetting or frustrating. At any point during your medical career, you may ask whether medicine is really the right career for you. You would ce...
Elements of medicine are fantastic but others can be upsetting or frustrating. At any point during your medical career, you may ask whether medicine is really the right career for you. You would ce...
A system for regulating inputs and outputs Everything that we do (from a productive point of view) can be divided into input or output. Input is receiving the ideas of others. Studying is input...
Automate what you hate, but have to do anyway and the power of batching The below diagram is from Chris Suave’s TED talk. He suggests, for all tasks: If you hate it and don’t have to do it, el...
“Consistent practice is the key to success” The idea of consistency being more important than intensity is oft-repeated. The tortoise beating the hare. To maintain fitness we should do exercise o...
What I gained from 99 days without Facebook Let me tell you about how my relationship with Facebook has changed over the last few years and the effects that this has had. A typical day for me a f...
Maintaining focus in an increasingly distracted world The negative correlation between Facebook and happiness has become well-documented (1, 2, 3, 4, etc, etc). I noticed the negative impacts it w...
The amount that you learn largely determines the quality of life that you live. I am not talking about ‘learning’ in a purely academic sense, or the learning of purely factual information, but rat...