Why am I writing this post? Whilst this post calls out some NHS workers for questionable behavior, I'm doing it because I actually care about NHS workers. For the last 8 years, the general political positions of NHS workers have failed hard. I believe it's partly because they're tone-deaf about the political situation. If I … Continue reading self-righteous greed is still greed
Unless you've been living in a cave, you'll know that the coronavirus has affected daily life. I myself have been working with PanSurg at Imperial College London collating data on the virus between work hours. I cannot stress how hard working these guys have been. Between 12-hour shifts these guys volunteer their time to work … Continue reading What’s Your Value?
Deploying an app is getting cheaper and easier. There's no shortage of people looking at their job and coming up with a software idea that can streamline a process. I'm all for this. After all, code is merely a meticulous business spec that's executed by a computer. If you can nail down a protocol for … Continue reading Why I Usually Don’t Care if My Code is Stolen
Has the world gone mad? Are you repeatedly getting shocked by political and economic outcomes? Are there more and more people that are just getting further away from you in political reference points? Well, you're not alone. My social media feeds have no shortage of people freaking out and rationalizing their shock. The easiest go-to … Continue reading How to Prevent Losing Your Grip on Reality
This post is long overdue. I actually left financial tech 3 months ago, but I've been caught up in a number of projects. The more interesting your life gets, the less time I have to blog. I'm trying to find the time by cutting down on Netflix time. Reading is now done entirely on the … Continue reading I Left Financial Tech… Here’s what I do Now
If you don't know what to do with your spare time, and you don't have a solid business plan, the best thing you can do is work on an open-source project for free and give it to the world. I've tried to force half-baked businesses and they rarely pan out. Exposure and deliberate practice [link] … Continue reading Rwanda Med Tech 2019
Chances are, you know of the stories of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Kids who dropped out of college and founded massive companies. These guys offer inspiration and hope to entrepreneurs. They teach us that not only is this possible, but possible through example. This has given me a steady stream of hopeful students and … Continue reading 3 things you shouldn’t wing in a tech startup
Over the last year out of touch politicians have been questioning the validity of pagers being used the NHS. I personally like pagers. They're simple and reliable. The NHS systems can barely talk to each other and from what I remember, there's always huge patches in any hospital where you can't get phone signal or … Continue reading Free/Easy Alert Systems with Discord
A couple of years ago, a Google company Deepmind worked with the Royal Free Hospital to produce an app for managing acute kidney injury. At the time I was working, and sitting exams so I never really gave it much thought. Somebody in the A and E where I was working told me that they … Continue reading Google’s app Streams shows that the NHS is damaging its future
I'm currently in South Africa attending a wedding. Whilst the South Africans are complaining about the weather as it's their winter here, I'm walking around in shorts, sandals, and short sleeved summer shirts. Still, this doesn't stop me packing my spare Macbook as I have deadlines. Imperial College London is teaching a computational medicine degree, … Continue reading Thrown a Party? You Already Intuitively Understand Overfitting in Machine Learning
