My writing.
I write about medicine, research, machine learning and how complex systems behave. This archive also includes older pieces from medical school and my PhD.
Selected essays
Start here.
The Failure of Complex Systems (and Missing Heritability)
Why complex systems rarely fail for one reason, from missed trains to missing heritability and multifactorial disease.
Type 2 Diabetes: A Tragedy of the Commons?
A systems-level way to think about insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes through the tragedy of the commons.
Reverse Engineering a Hemoglobin Assay Kit
How I reverse-engineered an expensive haemoglobin assay kit using common laboratory reagents and a plate reader.
Archive
All notes.
20 pieces, 2016–2021.
- A new era of personalised medicine: or how I got myself sequenced for free!Writing · medicine
- Experience as a BAME person working in a hospital during COVIDWriting · medicine
- Interview simulator for medicineWriting · medicine
- Neurotransmitters: not like filling up a cupWriting · medicine
- NHS Bursary: A Complete Guide for Medical StudentsWriting · medicine
- Engineering platelets for targeted haemostasisProject · medicine
- Books vs the Internet: why I prefer booksWriting · other
- Comparison is the thief of joy: a story of self-improvementWriting · life
- Arthur Max Barrett: A Cambridge PathologistWriting · medicine
- 🔗 Modern Day Alchemy: in vitro plateletsWriting · science
- Speeding up Face Recognition on Windows 10Writing
- 🔗 International Conference Travel Report - Galveston, TXWriting · science
- MB/PhD Symposium 2019Writing · science
- Forecasting demand in A&EProject · medicine
- Hello, world.Writing
- Acoustic fall detectionProject · medicine
- The genetics of primordial dwarfismProject · medicine