Threads: projects, promises & asks
Everything that runs across videos: projects and rituals, stories, running jokes, promises, predictions, asks and punishments. Each line opens the thread with its dated events.
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Projects & rituals (8)
How projects, rituals and works were proposed, launched, changed, lapsed, restarted and reported on.
- Ali's final year at Cambridge medical school (2017) · completed · Ali
Cambridge International Mental Health Conference
- Ali and Paul give a presentation at the Cambridge International Mental Health Conference (2017) · completed · Ali
Addenbrooke's Hospital Pantomime
Other
- Ali's vlogs: medical elective, final year and junior-doctor life (2017) · last documented in 2018 · Ali
- Cut and Paste, Ali and Ben's surgical logbook app for medical students (2017) · last documented in 2018 · Ali
- Ali says that because he and his SixMed colleagues graduate next year (2018) and may not have time to run the courses, he is slowly putting the interview course content on YouTube. · last documented in 2018 (looked back on in 2024)
- In his first foundation year at Addenbrooke's Ali will do two general internal medicine rotations, said to be quite tough, then general surgery, so no rest in those 12 months. · last documented in 2018
- Ali says Productivity Lab is a new product his company is launching around next week (week of 20 May 2024), and the retreat held a session on it. · running
Seen in a single video (5): one-off project moments.
Promises (53)
What was promised, and whether a later video reports the outcome. "Open" means no report inside this snapshot — not that it was broken.
- Ali promises more tutorials on BMAT critical thinking questions (2017) · open (no report in 2017–2024) · Ali
- Ali promises BMAT Tips videos on preparing for Sections 2 and 3 (2017) · kept · Ali
- Ali promises a video on using the BMAT Section 2 Assumed Knowledge Guide (2017) · open (no report in 2017–2024) · Ali
- Ali promises BMAT Section 2 videos on physics, biology, chemistry and maths (2017) · kept · Ali
- Ali promises a video on BMAT chemistry calculations · kept · Ali
- Ali and Ben promise a video on naming their surgical logbook app (2017) · kept · Ali
- Ali and Ben promise to email sign-ups when their surgical logbook app is ready (2017) · open (updates through 2017, not reported done) · Ali
- Ali promises a video on designing the full Cut and Paste website (2017) · open (no report in 2017–2024) · Ali
- Ali promises a vlog on the temples of Angkor Wat (2017) · kept · Ali
- Ali and Ben promise a video on prototyping the Cut and Paste app (2017) · kept · Ali
- Ali and Ben promise an episode on starting to code the Cut and Paste app (2017) · open (no report in 2017–2024) · Ali
- Ali promises a video on the content of BMAT Section 2 maths (2017) · open (no report in 2017–2024) · Ali
- Ali promises a BMAT Section 3 video on coming up with points and examples (2017) · open (no report in 2017–2024) · Ali
- Ali promises more videos on the BMAT, interviews and personal statements (2017) · kept · Ali
- Ali promises a video on the Montgomery case (2017) · kept · Ali
- Ali promises not to shy away from death and dying in his medical student vlogs (2017) · kept · Ali
- Ali promises a video on euthanasia, assisted suicide and do-not-resuscitate decisions (2017) · kept · Ali
- Ali says part two of his euthanasia videos, which should be out at some point the following week, will cover assisted suicide, attempts to change the law on it, and its ethics. · kept
- Ali presents this as the long-awaited video on his 2018 university desk setup that he had promised. · kept
- Ali plans to upgrade to colour-changing Philips Hue smart bulbs and says that will be the subject of another video, probably once he moves out of university into his own place. · open (no report in 2018–2024)
- Ali starts a monthly series in which he shares the favourite things he discovered that month: books, blog posts, articles, podcasts and products. · kept
- From the next week Ali will start a beginner's course in hand lettering for fun, on the iPad and on paper, perhaps for birthday and thank-you cards and Instagram. · open (no report in 2018–2024)
- Ali says he has a lot of experience of rejection in general and will make a video about dealing with it, probably in a few weeks. · open (updates through 2018, not reported done)
- Ali says there will be a vlog at some point on a day in the life on his GP placement by the coast. · kept
- Ali says he will make another video on what happens once he finds out where he will be for the next two years. · kept
- Ali says a very detailed video on how he manages his time and avoids procrastinating will come in the next couple of weeks. · open (updates through 2018, not reported done)
- Ali says he will make an in-depth series on his channel in a few weeks on the psychology research about effective study techniques; this video with Ibz Mo is a broad overview. · kept
- Ali says his next video in the evidence-based revision series will be about spaced repetition. · kept
- Ali says more videos for students are coming: on motivation, productivity, how he makes notes though he doesn't like making notes, the apps on his phone and how he uses the iPad for medical school. · open (updates through 2018, not reported done)
- Ali says videos of his friends singing songs will be on the channel very soon. · kept
- Ali will do a 10,000-subscriber Q&A themed on study tips and revision on Thursday 12 April 2018, and asks viewers to send questions by Instagram or Snapchat message. · kept
- Ali says that if viewers find this study-with-me video useful, he will be happy to do another, time-lapsing his OSCE preparation. · kept
- Ali says the next day's video (13 April 2018) will answer viewers' questions on specific study techniques, such as active recall, spaced repetition, flashcards and how to learn material in the first place. · kept late
- Ali says he will make a video, with the evidence, on how to learn material in the first place. · open (updates through 2018, not reported done)
- Ali says the next video will answer study questions sent in by university students: lectures, essays and managing the workload. · kept
- Ali says he will talk about Derren Brown's book Happy in another video because he absolutely loves it. · open (no report in 2018–2024)
- Ali packs his broken drone to send for repairs and says there will be more on it in his vlog about the trip to Singapore and Bali. · open (no report in 2018–2024)
- Ali sorts out paperwork at the post office for the house he hopes to move into around July 2018, and says there will be more on it closer to the time. · open (updates through 2018, not reported done)
- After a quick room tour on the stream, Ali says he will make a proper room-tour video with slow-motion, close-up, blurred-background shots of his books and things. · open (no report in 2018–2024)
- Ali says his medical ethics series has covered the major topics, but he wants to make a video about Alfie Evans soon and is working on it. · open (no report in 2018–2024)
- Ali says he will do more livestreams because this one was a really fun way to spend 45 minutes. · kept
- Ali hopes another revision video will be up the next morning, to be followed by another study-with-me vlog and more vlogs. · kept
- Ali is working on a big series of advice videos for first-year medical students, hoping to release the first by September 2018, then one a week for about three months. · open (no report in 2018–2024)
- Ali will write an email to his newsletter about why he dislikes the word "busy", probably the following week. · open (no report in 2018–2024)
- Asked why he bought a house instead of renting, Ali says he will make an in-depth video about it. · open (no report in 2018–2024)
- Ali will do a Q&A with one of his friends doing graduate-entry medicine at Cambridge and asks viewers to send questions by email or Instagram. · open (no report in 2018–2024)
- Ali might at some point do a 20,000-subscriber Q&A and asks viewers to send questions in the comments, by Instagram message or by email. · open (no report in 2018–2024)
- Ali plans to borrow a friend's 2018 iPad for a full comparison with his iPad Pro, and will hurry it along if viewers ask for it in the comments. · kept
- Ali says he will make a video about how he types so fast. · open (no report in 2020–2024)
- Ali's team is planning a Book Club video distilling the main insights of Anything You Want, which is proving tricky because the book is a collection of 40 short lessons. · open (no report in 2020–2024)
- Though he cringes at talking about himself on video to strangers, Ali says he has paid for the singing class, wants to improve his singing and will do every exercise the coach sets each day. · open (no report in 2020–2024)
- Asked when his productivity class comes out on Skillshare, Ali answers in two weeks. · open (no report in 2020–2024)
- Ali accepts a viewer's challenge to take the 16 Personalities test and make a video of it. · open (no report in 2020–2024)
Predictions (4)
Predictions about the world and the channel.
- Ali predicts hardly anyone but friends will watch his vlogs (2017) · unresolved · Ali
- Ali predicts UK law will probably change at some point to allow physician-assisted suicide in some form, as the world becomes more libertarian about the right to choose when one's life ends. · unresolved
- Ali expects to get at least a foundation job in his top five, maybe his top ten. · came true
- Ali doubts he will start a podcast: the world has too many, producing one is a lot of effort, and he prefers video's sense of seeing someone in real life. · unresolved
Stories (1)
Stories told and retold across videos.
Seen in a single video (1): one-off stories.