Chronic Ways of Working
Chronic Ways of Working #1 | Jill Knobeloch Mills: Jill built a detailed system to track patterns across health, work, and daily life. Years later, we learn what remained after she no longer needed it.
Bodies & Health
September brought me a retail experiment, a much busier schedule, and a return to making things plus a few lessons about what my body can actually handle.
Chronically Self-Employed
Being functional and being recovered? Not the same thing. SIPS Month 2 explores the gap between usable capacity and fuller recovery.
Chronically Self-Employed
I tried to get (human) help for my AI-assisted work, only to realize I might be asking for too much. Where exactly do debates about ethical AI use leave disability, money, access, and energy?
Work & Money
Disabled and chronically ill people like us are criminally underemployed in the U.S. These job boards and resources can help change that.
Field Recordings
An audio companion to the first monthly field report from the Starr Institute of Physiological Shenanigans.
Chronically Self-Employed
This imaginary 1930s travel research institute has become the home of all my health data collection and analysis to help me better understand my body with chronic illness.
Chronic Ways of Working #1 | Jill Knobeloch Mills: Jill built a detailed system to track patterns across health, work, and daily life. Years later, we learn what remained after she no longer needed it.
September brought me a retail experiment, a much busier schedule, and a return to making things plus a few lessons about what my body can actually handle.
Being functional and being recovered? Not the same thing. SIPS Month 2 explores the gap between usable capacity and fuller recovery.
I tried to get (human) help for my AI-assisted work, only to realize I might be asking for too much. Where exactly do debates about ethical AI use leave disability, money, access, and energy?
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