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14 April 2025 – Handling Information 1: The Basics

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll talk about information in all shapes and sizes. We’ll talk about digital literacy. We’ll talk about AI…

7 April 2025 – Managing Money 4: Build a Happy Retirement from Day 1

If you prefer to listen to this newsletter, click here. The theme of this week’s Though is really theoretical at the moment, but if you take it to heart now, you…

31 March 2025 – Manage Money 3: Saving as the key to Self-empowerment

If you prefer to listen to this newsletter, click here. I know, I know, you see the heading above and you say to yourself, “I’m barely making ends meet and they…

24 March 2025 – Managing Money 2: Good Debt, Bad Debt

We have a brand new innovation this week: you can also listen to the newsletter click here. For a podcast on last week’s Thought on Budgeting, click here. How are you getting on with drawing…

17 March 2025 – Managing Money 1: Make a Budget

This week and for the rest of this month we’re talking money. You probably think you have so little, there’s no point in thinking about “managing” it. Only rich people…

10 March 2025 – What to do First

We are revisiting some of the stuff we talked about in our first letters in September, so this will be familiar to those of you who’ve been receiving it since…

3 March 2025 – Getting Control of Time

We all find ourselves exclaiming about how time flies. Heavens, it’s March already! Here’s a comment from a first-year student a few years ago: “The majority of students complain about…

24 February 2025 – Managing Time and Money

The academic year has started. Classes are running. You’re getting the hang of what is where and how to get there. Other things have been sorted out, or are in…

17 February 2025 – Feeding Yourself on a Small Budget

For some of you, this may be the first time that you have had to look after yourself when it comes to food. This can be very stressful, especially on…

10 February 2025 – Yes You Can

Three weeks ago, on 20 January, we sent you a slightly longer newsletter titled “It’s up to me … and I can.” That was based on interviews for a podcast series called…

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