love is embarrassing? | Some people aren’t remotely interested in dating, which makes perfect sense...
Suspending adulthood as a way to have fun | Something I noticed at the OULES New Year’s celebrations was that the people there were very good at having silly, joyous fun...
Thermostats | In machine learning, there’s a concept of “temperature”: a parameter which controls the amount of randomness that’s fed in to the model’s predictions...
Dating | I’ve been working on building a dating service for Oxford students (Oxheart) this year, but as a friend pointed out, I’m not creating a product which is precisely tailored to what I’d like to have exist...
Asking questions and drinking games | I like being listened to. And when I’m being listened to, I like to be thoughtfully vulnerable...
Losing my sense of taste | Sometimes I look back over my journal to see what is repeatedly on my mind...
PMQs | In classic Sixth Form work experience fashion, I spent a week last summer shadowing an MP...
When the front page shouldn’t be the top priority | Lots of things are important, but some are more important than others – often by orders of magnitude (for example, causes of death)...
I really hate Facebook | Not as a consumer; I don’t use it much. But as a business or developer, it’s absolutely infuriating...
Bureaucracy | I have spent much more time tangled in Facebook over the past week than I would like...
Advertising | You can make advertisements for things you’re working on! Maybe this seems obvious, but on several occasions it hasn’t occurred to me that I have a lot of marketing options available, and that some would be totally worth it...
PPE | Sometimes I’m asked by people hoping to study PPE (philosophy, politics, and economics) for tips on how to do well in their applications...
This essay will… | George Orwell has a famous essay “Why I Write”, where he presents four reasons that someone might do so: sheer egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose (in his words)...
University interview advice | People often ask me whether I have advice about applying to Oxford for PPE...