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27 April 2026 – Working with AI to Study more Effectively

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. If you have been using the section on study methods in GRAD, you will have come across the name of Dr Barbara Oakley. She’s…

20 April 2026 – Handling Information 2: Digital Literacy using AI

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. We’re well into the academic year. Even those of you who had never met a computer before coming to university, know that computers and…

13 April 2026 – 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…

06 April 2026 – Managing Money 4: Build a Happy Retirement from Day 1

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. Wendy Selebi is a financial coach, an author and a podcaster. Do read her book that she’s holding in the picture: I…

30 March 2026 – Managing Money 3: Saving as the Key to Self-empowerment

If you’d rather 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 want…

23 March 2026 – Managing Money 2: Good Debt, Bad Dept

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. How are you getting on with drawing up your budget and keeping track of expenses? I have an excel file on my…

16 March 2026 – Managing Money 1: Make a Budget

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. You probably think you have so little, there’s no point in thinking about “managing” it. Only rich people do that, right? Wrong. Smart money…

09 March 2026 – What to do First

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. In these first newsletters of the year, we are discussing the basic building blocks for finding order in your life, for the…

02 March 2026 – Getting Control of Time

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. 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…

23 February 2026 – Managing Time and Money

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. 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…
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