Roadmap: 2026

The next two months are unusually compressed.

My medical finals run from the end of January into early February. At the same time, I’m beginning work with HealthGPS on a public-health project written in C++. In an ideal world, I would defer serious technical work until after exams. In practice, that isn’t possible. I committed to learning C++ within a four-month window, and that window is now closing.

There are obvious candidates for temporary de-prioritisation—Spanish, Japanese, exercise, and other ongoing commitments. I’m choosing not to pause those. Not because this period isn’t demanding, but because allowing progress in long-term systems to regress under short-term pressure tends to create more instability later. This is a trade-off rather than a virtue, and it’s one I’m consciously accepting.

I’m writing this publicly to establish context, not to solicit reassurance. For readers who don’t know me, it also serves as a starting point: a clear description of the constraints under which this site is being built.

To prevent this notes page from becoming a personal blog in the narrow sense, I want to be explicit about how I intend to use it over the rest of the year. The goal is for it to function primarily as a record of analysis rather than autobiography. Making that intent public creates a form of external accountability and allows future posts to stay grounded in evidence rather than introspection.

I plan to publish here roughly once every two weeks. Alongside this, I’ve created accounts on Instagram, X, LinkedIn, and Bluesky to share work, test ideas, and interact with others more openly. These platforms are distribution and feedback mechanisms, not the core output.

Content on this page will focus on evidence-based examinations of topics I find compelling. Some pieces will be longer-form essays; others will be narrower critiques or appraisals. The emphasis throughout will be on grounding claims in data, literature, and clear reasoning rather than unexamined belief.

By the end of the year, I intend to make the site available in multiple languages. The initial focus will be Spanish and Japanese, the two non-English languages I already have experience with. I will also publish an update at the end of my fifteen-week placement with the HealthGPS team at Imperial Business School, outlining what was achieved and how that work informs what comes next.

Plans beyond university are now more concrete than those outlined in December. Rather than broad, loosely scoped ambitions, the focus will be on smaller, executable projects—work that can be taken from conception to deployment, demonstrates capability across multiple domains, and produces tangible value.

From a technical standpoint, my immediate objective is to reach working fluency in SQL, C++, and Python. That foundation should be sufficient to support the systems I want to build, before transitioning toward more fully fledged full-stack development from 2027 onward.

This is the outline. Progress, or lack of it, should be visible against it.