Using AI when your brain won't cooperate
On the worst days, forming sentences is hard work. Voice dictation and AI assistants have become my bridge between what I want to do and what I can do.
Coming soonI spent nine months bed-bound. Technology helped me find my way back.
Tech & Tired is a one-stop resource for the tools that make life with chronic illness more liveable.
Technology for life with chronic illness
There's plenty of good writing out there about the psychology of chronic illness, and about pacing, rest, and recovery. What I couldn't find anywhere was a single honest resource about the technology — the tools and devices that, in the world we live in now, can genuinely make life with chronic fatigue easier and better.
From AI that helps you get things done through brain fog, to exoskeleton legs that make a walk outside possible again — if it has helped me, you'll find it here. No hype, no miracle cures, no affiliate-driven nonsense. Just what worked, what didn't, and what it's actually like to live with.
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Where to begin
Mobility
Brain fog
Sleep
The legs that nobody notices
Two years of walking with a Hypershell exoskeleton, told through two family holidays — and an honest answer to the question everyone asks: how much does it actually help?
Read the articleThe sleep tech that actually moved the needle
Temperature-controlled mattresses, wearables, and the data that helped me understand my own unrefreshing sleep — and what I stopped bothering with.
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