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ADHD Diary #004: The Week Nothing Shipped

No-Travel-Day. No commits, no launches, no progress visible to anyone outside my head. What a week of rest looks like when your brain doesn't know how to stop.

Rene Fichtmueller / 2026-05-12 / ~2 min read min read
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The Unspoken Costs — Mental Health in Tech Infrastructure

745,000 people die from overwork every year. That number comes from the WHO and the ILO jointly, published in 2021, covering data through 2016. The actual number in 2026

Rene Fichtmueller / 2026-04-23 / ~3 min read min read