A reading log, kept by one person.
This is not a magazine. It is a quiet collection of what I have read, looked up, and slowly put together while learning to live well with an autoimmune condition I have had for a long time.
I started keeping notes during a long stretch of being unwell. The autoimmune condition I have is one that affects the brain — it quietly disrupts how I think, regulate, and adapt, in ways that are hard to point at and harder to explain. On paper it was not the worst thing in the world. In practice it took years to understand the shape of the suffering, and longer to begin to live with it calmly.
Most of what I read in the early years was either written for doctors or written to alarm me. What I needed was somewhere in between — careful and specific and unhurried, but in plain language. This site is my attempt at that. The pieces here are summaries of things I have read and found useful: studies, books, essays, sometimes a single careful paragraph from someone who knew more than I did.
My real interest is in the intersections — where physical health meets mental health, where genetics meets longevity, where what we now know about AI meets what we are slowly learning to do with our bodies. The sections of this site reflect that. They are organised the way I think about the problem, not the way a journal would.
This is for the reader who is not a scientist, who wants to understand, and who has the time.
- A reading log, written in plain language for a non-specialist reader.
- Organised around the intersections of subjects, not the silos.
- Slow, careful, and updated when something new is actually worth saying.
- Honest about what is still uncertain.
- Medical advice. Please see a clinician you trust.
- A news outlet. There is no schedule, no breaking coverage.
- A magazine, with editors and a staff and a masthead.
- Exhaustive. It is a personal selection, with its blind spots.