About

G'day!

My name is Ben. I'm an emergency medicine trainee based in Melbourne, and the founder of Socket.

This all started as a passion project after preparing for my own fellowship exams. For context if you're reading this through a non-medico lens: the stakes for medical in-training exams are enormous. Fail, and you're facing months of extra study, a 6 to 12-month career delay, and thousands of dollars in college fees. Not to mention a big chunk of life that goes by in the meantime. And despite the enormity of these exams, the tools available to prepare are embarrassingly inadequate. Cloud-based folders of PDFs, Word documents shared in group chats, and online question banks that are overpriced and rarely updated to reflect current practice.

Socket is the platform I wish I'd had for my own study.

I've designed it to honour the way busy people learn - in stolen moments, on the go, with limited time and under enormous pressure. Behind its simple exterior is an incredibly powerful engine that knows how you study better than you do. As you use it, Socket builds an understanding of what you know and where your gaps are, serving up content at exactly the right time to make it stick.

After months in beta, Socket is about to become a paid platform. Coming soon are richer question formats, deeper personalisation, and expansion beyond medicine into any field where the concepts are broad, the learning is complex, and the stakes are high.

If you have ideas, want to get involved, or are curious about where this is headed, I'd genuinely love to hear from you.

Happy studying!
Ben