Roi's personal corner. Thoughts, projects, building from bed.https://rois.life/en-gbhttps://rois.life/blog/inflammation-dr-natasha-punia/https://rois.life/blog/inflammation-dr-natasha-punia/What inflammation actually is. Why it matters more than you think. And what's happening inside when you feel this bad.Mon, 25 May 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/the-mindful-migraine-expert/https://rois.life/blog/the-mindful-migraine-expert/Migraine isn't just pain. It's a system, a pattern, a thing to understand. What changes when you stop fighting it and start learning from it.Thu, 21 May 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/redefining-mental-health-vanessa-pott/https://rois.life/blog/redefining-mental-health-vanessa-pott/What mental health actually is, once you stop measuring it against the wrong standard.Mon, 18 May 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/falk-schuster-major-depressive-disorder/https://rois.life/blog/falk-schuster-major-depressive-disorder/What it actually feels like. Not the textbook version. The lived version.Thu, 14 May 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/the-medical-anthropologist/https://rois.life/blog/the-medical-anthropologist/What happens when a doctor studies systems instead of just treating patients. Dr. Margret Jaeger on why your healthcare doesn't work.Mon, 11 May 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/samah-atout-war-and-mental-health/https://rois.life/blog/samah-atout-war-and-mental-health/What happens when lived experience becomes policy. How trauma, resilience, and the refusal to be silent drive real change.Thu, 07 May 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/complete-pocket-guide-medical-appointments/https://rois.life/blog/complete-pocket-guide-medical-appointments/For patients who've been dismissed, confused, or talked over. How to prepare, advocate, and leave with what you actually needed.Mon, 04 May 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/abc-public-speaking/https://rois.life/blog/abc-public-speaking/From someone who had to relearn how to speak after years of isolation: what it actually takes to find your voice and hold a room.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/little-book-patient-communication/https://rois.life/blog/little-book-patient-communication/What actually works when clinicians and patients try to understand each other — and why most communication training gets the hardest part wrong.Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/algorithm-will-see-you-now-book/https://rois.life/blog/algorithm-will-see-you-now-book/What AI can do in healthcare. What it cannot see. And the patients it will abandon if we don't ask harder questions about what we're optimizing for.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/what-do-patients-want-book/https://rois.life/blog/what-do-patients-want-book/The gap between what patients say and what they actually want — and why healthcare's biggest failure is listening to the wrong questions.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/revolution-from-my-bed-book/https://rois.life/blog/revolution-from-my-bed-book/How chronic illness rewired everything I thought about work, identity, and what it means to build when you're not okay.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/good-days-are-dangerous/https://rois.life/blog/good-days-are-dangerous/The worst crashes come after the best days. Why feeling good is a trap, and how I learned to stop falling for it.Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/launching-one-spooniversity-track-early/https://rois.life/blog/launching-one-spooniversity-track-early/The plan was to build the whole thing properly. Then the messages started coming in.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:26:18 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/the-isolated-island/https://rois.life/blog/the-isolated-island/Chronic illness is its own country. Nobody visits. Nobody speaks the language. And the loneliness is the part that almost kills you.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/seven-lessons-seven-years/https://rois.life/blog/seven-lessons-seven-years/Not advice. Not inspiration. Just what became clear when everything else was taken away.Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/just-get-up/https://rois.life/blog/just-get-up/What doctors kept telling me while my heart rate hit 170 from standing. What I learned about rebuilding a body that forgot how to work.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/a-5090-wont-fix-this/https://rois.life/blog/a-5090-wont-fix-this/I realized that even top-tier gaming hardware can't compensate for what chronic illness took from me.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:42:06 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/the-metrics-we-dont-have/https://rois.life/blog/the-metrics-we-dont-have/Someone told me 'Revolution from My Bed' helped them while bedbound. I realized I had no way to measure the impact that actually matters.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:55:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/spoons-world-development-journey/https://rois.life/blog/spoons-world-development-journey/The real challenges and breakthroughs in building a patient-side community platform where lived experience becomes data.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:21:14 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/what-do-you-do/https://rois.life/blog/what-do-you-do/On the impossibility of fitting into categories when your life is all one work.Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:55:08 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/the-exoskeleton/https://rois.life/blog/the-exoskeleton/Why getting an exoskeleton to manage PEM and exercise intolerance changes everything — and nothing.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:47:13 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/chronically-where-the-honesty-lives/https://rois.life/blog/chronically-where-the-honesty-lives/Why chronically.life exists. Essays on chronic illness, patient advocacy, parenting through pain, healthcare, and showing up.Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:38:24 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/minisforum-u790-gaming-apu/https://rois.life/blog/minisforum-u790-gaming-apu/The Minisforum U790 APU runs PUBG smoothly, fits on a shelf, costs a fraction of a gaming tower, and might be the future of home gaming nobody is talking about.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/fear-of-no-users/https://rois.life/blog/fear-of-no-users/The specific terror of building something real, making it public, and watching the users not arrive.Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/pine64-smartwatch/https://rois.life/blog/pine64-smartwatch/The Apple Watch Ultra is extraordinary. The PineTime does everything I actually need. These facts can both be true.Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/solopreneur-loneliness-freedom/https://rois.life/blog/solopreneur-loneliness-freedom/Working alone is both harder and better than everyone said it would be. Mostly at the same time.Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/food-intolerances-chronic-illness/https://rois.life/blog/food-intolerances-chronic-illness/A semi-serious rant about food intolerances, histamine, MCAS, and how the chronically ill seem to be losing foods at an alarming rate.Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://rois.life/blog/small-tech-big-hygiene/https://rois.life/blog/small-tech-big-hygiene/iPhone mini. Mini PC. MacBook Air. The year I stopped hauling a gaming rig everywhere and finally felt like my technology fit my life.Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT