A New Year, A Fresh Start, and a New Way to Think About Time

Ehm Academy | January 2026 🧠📚

Happy New Year from Ehm Academy 🎉

If you’ve been around here for a while, you may have noticed… I fell off a bit with the monthly blog posts. And before we go any further, I owe you a genuine apology 🙏 

Between an extremely demanding residency schedule, one of our busiest and most fulfilling semesters teaching alongside our incredible Ehm Academy team, and—most importantly—the life-altering arrival of my adorable baby boy, something had to give. And for a short while, it was the newsletter.

Thank you for your patience, your trust, and for staying connected. We’re back—and I’m excited to restart these monthly reflections as we move into 2026 and beyond 🚀

⏳ A lecture on time that stopped me in my tracks

Recently, I found myself completely captivated by a lecture on time by Richard Feynman 🎓

Not productivity time.
Not calendar time.
But time time—the kind that shapes how we experience learning, growth, and life itself.

Feynman had this remarkable ability to strip away complexity until only clarity remains. In this lecture, he explains how time isn’t something we truly feel in a linear way. It’s something we infer—something we measure through change, motion, and memory 🧩

And that landed very differently for me this year.

👶 Learning looks different when you’re holding a newborn

Since the birth of my son, my internal clock has been completely rewritten ⏰

Nights blur into mornings. Days feel both endless and impossibly short. A single hour can feel like five minutes—or a lifetime—depending on whether he’s sleeping peacefully or reminding us (loudly) that he’s hungry 📣

Watching him learn—how to focus on a face, track sound, and slowly make sense of the world—has been a daily reminder of something we emphasize constantly at Ehm Academy:

Learning doesn’t happen on a rigid schedule.
It happens when the brain is ready, supported, and safe enough to explore 🌱

That lecture reminded me that time isn’t the enemy. Rushing is.

🔄 A gentle reset for 2026

As we step into this new year, I want to set the tone for what these monthly Ehm Academy posts will be about:

• Practical, evidence-based learning strategies 🧠
• Simple mental models to reduce overwhelm 🛠️
• Honest reflections from medicine, teaching, and parenthood ❤️
• Resources that build confidence—not just grades 📈

At Ehm Academy, our core belief remains unchanged:

Every challenge is an opportunity to learn, refine our system, and deepen connection—with our students and ourselves ✨

Sometimes that challenge is an exam 📝
Sometimes it’s burnout 🔥
Sometimes it’s learning how to function on two hours of sleep with a newborn in your arms ☕😅

All of it counts.

🚧 What’s coming next

I’m committing—realistically and sustainably—to restarting these monthly blogs. No perfection. Just presence 🤍

Coming up:

• How to study when your time is fragmented ⏱️
• Why “falling behind” is often a cognitive illusion 🪞
• Tools we actually use at Ehm Academy to build momentum without pressure 🧭

Thank you for being part of this community—and for giving me the grace to step away and the motivation to return.

With gratitude,

Deepak
Founder, Ehm Academy

Currently:

📖 : Reading | 👀: watching/listening | 🎵: song of the week | 📚️: Team Message

📖 : The Almanac of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson, Tim Ferriss, Naval Ravikant

👀 : The Sopranos- Season 5, HBO

🎵 : Pink Skies- Zach Bryan

📚️ : Ehm Academy: Reach out for tutoring interest!