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Medical Adventure in Sudan
In January 2019, I and a group of doctors from Cambridge travelled to Sudan for a medical mission trip. With a team of Sudanese doctors, pharmacists, lab techs and 80…
When my to-do list piles up, I use this productivity trick
At the start of this week, I found myself feeling a little overwhelmed. I’d been on holiday over the Christmas period, and on returning to the UK I had two…
How I make money in the stock market
A chap called Jack Bogle died last week, at the age of 89. You may not have heard of him. He founded a company called Vanguard and introduced the world…
The £5 item that made my student life much happier
One of the best purchases I made at the start of my university days was a doorstopper. Whenever I was in my room during waking hours, I’d leave the door…
How to be Excellent
On the flight home from Sudan this week, I read an absolutely wonderful paper from 1989 called The Mundanity of Excellence – An ethnographic report on stratification and Olympic swimmers. The…
A rule to follow in new situations
I’m writing this post from a small town in Sudan where some other doctors and I are helping out with a medical mission running pop-up clinics in local villages (PS:…
A simple trick to making New Year’s Resolutions stick
You’ve probably heard about how most people don’t end up sticking to their New Year’s Resolutions. They buy gym memberships in January, go a handful of times and then stop…