100 Club - Blogging (16/100)

Start here - On Blogging and 100 Club
The list..
- Best Indian grills in Birmingham, UK (2024)
Best Indian grills in Birmingham, UK (2024)
The best Indian grills in Birmingham, UK (2024) The finalists In order.. 1 - The Royal Oak, Handsworth (Google Maps) * OG grill. Even better now after the refit. Feels like their meat is the best quality. Not the biggest venue, lots of tvs for games. 2 - Soho Tavern, Smethwick

- Hiking
Hiking
It was January 2024 whilst half way up a 4 km trail in Queensland, Australia when I realised I loved hiking. While resting at the top enjoying the sunset my resolve deepened, in that moment I knew I would decade serious time and km to hiking over the next years.

- Life Update - September 2024
Life Update - September 2024
The post was originally posted on my Substack - What’s meant for you.. on 6th October 2024. Welcome to my first monthly recap of my life. 1. I’ve started a blog again. This would be my fourth or fifth attempt, but I’m hopeful and just can’t get

- Becoming a better pharmacist
Becoming a better pharmacist
Since leaving the world of startups and returning from travelling I’ve been dedicating myself to becoming a the best possible pharmacist. My strengths in pharmacy is empathy and my calming nature. I sometimes struggle with operational excellence These next few months (and years?) are dedicated to developing the systems and

- Life Update - October 2024
Life Update - October 2024
The post was originally posted on my Substack - What’s meant for you.. on 27th Novmeber 2024. 1 - Birthdays - October was a big birthday month for me. I’ve my Dad’s birthday, one of my good friends 30th and more. For my friend’s 30th we Airbnbed

- My Favourite Blogs
My Favourite Blogs
Running list.. 1. Nick Gray - nickgray.net 2. Tim Ferriss - tim.blog 3. Derek Sivers - sive.rs/blog 4. Sam Parr - theantimba.com/blog 5. Shaan Puri - shaanpuri.com 6. Gwern Branwen - gwern.net 7. Paul Graham - paulgraham.com/articles 8. Sam Altman

- Life Update - November 2024
Life Update - November 2024
The post was originally posted on my Substack - What’s meant for you.. on 17th December 2024. 1. Pharmacy Refit - this 6 week refit and disruption has forced me to reflection on what are core pharmacy services and to deliver a quality service despite mess and chaos all around.

- Apps I'm a DAU of 2024
2024 Apps I’m a DAU of
Daily Active Users or DAU is a metric used in tech businesses management to quantify user engagement. It represents the number of unique users who interact with a product, such as an app or website, within a 24-hour period. I first became acquainted with DAU and MAU (Monthly Active Users)

- Getting Good at Money
Getting Good at Money ⌛
As our 6 month journey around Australia and India was coming to an end my desire for adventure was fading and in its place was the longing for a home of our home, that we owned, and starting a family. This marked a distinct change in myself and a new

- The Nature Pyramid
The Nature Pyramid: How to Balance Your Outdoor Time for Better Health and Happiness
Discover how the Nature Pyramid can help you balance outdoor experiences to boost your health, happiness, and connection with the natural world.

- Why I Ditched Whoop and Oura for a Single Metric: Sleep Debt
Why I Ditched Whoop and Oura for a Single Metric: Sleep Debt
For three years, I was deep in the world of biometric tracking, Oura then Whoop were my constant companion. For 3 years I had a steady feed of data about my body and performance. Heart rate variability (HRV), resting heart rate (RHR), blood oxygen, respiratory rate, and skin temperature, recovery
- ChatGPT Journal Analysis - 2024
ChatGPT Journal Analysis - 2024
I keep a daily journal where I answer mostly the same questions everyday. Mostly I just write what I’ve been up to, what I’m worried about and what I’m grateful for. Usually I don’t to anything with these entries but this year I’m going to feed them to ChatGPT and

- Annual review - 2024
Annual Review - 2024
Read my previous annual reviews here and here. Past Year Review (PYR) Tim Ferriss’s popular yearly reflection - the Past Year Review (PYR) has been something I’ve been doing for a few years now and I find it easy to derive some high level takeaways without getting bogged down in

- Experiment - Turning my phone on Grayscale for 1 week
Experiment - Turning my phone on Grayscale for 1 week
Hypothesis (or Question) I think turning my phone on grayscale (i.e. literally black and white) will help reduce my screen time and break the dopamine addiction I have with my phone. Why It Matters * I spend an inordinate amount of time on phone - in fact back in university

- Side Quest - Morning Routines
Side Quest - Morning Routines
I’m that prick that focuses on morning routines in place of doing real work. And whatsmore I rarely completed any morning routine regularly. In 2023, I found my myself stuck in a big fat rutt. It was the probably the lowest I had been in a decade. I would wake

- Experiment - Micro Breaks for Pharmacists: Improving Focus During Long Workdays
Experiment - Micro Breaks for Pharmacists: Improving Focus During Long Workdays
Hypothesis (or Question) Do micro breaks (10 bodyweight squats or a 2-minute breathing exercise) improve focus and mental clarity during the pharmacist workday? Why It Matters My 9+ hour workdays take their toll. Recently, keeping my focus sharp has become increasingly challenging, leaving me drained by the day’s end—too
