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Energy management: the art of joy at work?
A university lecturer from my undergraduate degree once gave me the following advice on my career: Follow the tasks you enjoy. I now know this as really advice around “energy management” which has become popularized online of late, but didn’t have this language at the time. Practically, she suggested not focusing so much on the…
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Epiphanies on therapy (from someone who hasn’t yet had therapy)
A realization came to me the other day when having a catchup with my boss. It was the first catchup we had had for some time and this one was different. Not only had there been recent stressors of COVID and local flooding, but I had also been spread thin at work. All of this…
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On consuming without the guilt
Over the last year I’ve seen a stack of YouTubers promoting things like “building a second brain”. And whilst I’m sure systems like this are beneficial for reviewing previously consumed ideas and great for content creators, I have some thoughts. The moment I felt like this had gone too far was on one video where…
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How do we combat toxic productivity in the workplace?
Toxic productivity. A phrase we probably ought to apply a bit more liberally I think if we want to acknowledge the bizarre weight our society gives to the grind, the hustle, forgoing sleep in favour of work and then flexing it as some badge of honour. Here are the things which have been on my…
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Tech stuff that has improved my life (and will probably improve yours too)
As a not-tech-guru, but someone interested (read: obsessed) with productivity hacks and strategies, I’m constantly on the look out for things to help improve my workflows and just make life all round more pleasurable. Because, you know, things should surely be fun (work included)! The Calm app I’m not into typical meditation, but this app…
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The subtle art of not giving a f**k: a(n early) review
Ahh… the suble art of not giving a f**k by Mark Manson. A New York Times Best Seller and worldwide sensation with that familiar orange cover that’s caught my eye so frequently on public transport. Readers hunched over, thirsty for some pearls on living a good life. So I decided it was my time to…
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Move within (an introduction to pharmacokinetics)
There are two main categories of ideas chemists can talk about when considering how drugs work: pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Today we’re going to focus on the first one, pharmacokinetics. As you can probably guess by breaking down the word, ‘pharmaco’-’kinetics’ describes how drugs move in the body. Some of the overaraching concepts were covered in…
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The body rules
To understand how drugs work, we have to first have some understanding of how the human body is composed. We can do this by imagine we are slowly zooming into the body at its different levels of components: Body …zooming in… Systems e.g. the nervous system, the cardiovascular system, etc …zooming in further… Organs e.g.…
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A word on medications (how the hang do they work?)
I wanted to create this series to allow a bit of a peek behind the curtain of how medications work. As a health professional with a special interest in medications, I reflect on my previous understandings of the human body and how medications worked and recollect how mystifying all things things were. The overarching notion…
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Mitochondria and other musings 