I didn’t realise how much of my baseline was illness until parts of it disappeared.
Out of Sight; Out of Mind - Ewan’s Blog
Disability did not become fashionable. Disabled people became harder to ignore.
Interconnected, a blog by Matt Webb
My notebook and space for thinking out loud since February 2000.
Five Years of Being A Full-Time Indie
Wow, it’s been a while. Figured passing another milestone is worth at least some sort of update. Looking back at my 1 year milestone has been amusing. My initial thought was that almost all the points brought up 4 years ago would no longer apply. A lot of the insights back then are strangely still quite applicable. So what’s happened in the 4 years since? On a more personal level, I’ve improved my eating and exercising habits to stay healthier.
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[Epistemic status: fiction] Thanks for letting me put my story on your blog. Mainstream media is crap and no one would have believed me anyway. This starts in September 2017. I was working for a sm…
About Pckt Notes & Writers Block - Brookie’s Blog
I'm feeling bad at writing lately. I think that's okay sometimes, not everything has to be perfect... And it's not really perfection that I'm seeking, but it ca...
Who listens when mental health struggles disrupt daily life?
Ask a Bangladeshi newspaper reader to picture a mental health story. Perhaps a psychiatrist’s quote comes to mind, a helpline number, or a headline about a student’s death.
Fell in a hole, got out.
Medium’s recap, financial turnaround, and difficult path back to health.
Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.
Andy's Blog
Originally published in October, 2017 – over three years later in 2021 I am still happily using Posteo!
Paralyzed
If you follow the Jekyll community, you might have noticed that I haven’t been as active in the last year or two. Part of this is due to life events usurping my free time, and part of this is something else entirely: paralysis. I want to discuss today the paralysis.
Post-exertional malaise (PEM) in ME/CFS
Post-exertional malaise (PEM), the cardinal feature of ME/CFS, is particularly debilitating as it involves the amplification of existing symptoms, alongside the potential appearance of new ones, following minimal exertion. However, the term “exertion” may be misconstrued, by those unfamiliar with ME/CFS, as activities typically considered high intensity by healthy individuals. Consequently, healthy individuals may inappropriately…
Everything is In-Between — Douglas Rushkoff
I’ve begun this piece maybe twenty times in the past three weeks. By the time I’ve finished the first paragraph, some new thing happens that obsolesces whatever event I’m writing about. And I’m not even writing about the news, so much as using one shared moment as a “peg” for a piece about some larger phenomenon or strategy.
How one hour of slow breathing changed my life
An introductory breathing class fixed my sleep and left me calmer than ever. It took me years to find out why
you know what? my own blog was overdue today too
Ecosystem updates / small stuff
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