Talk Unafraid
  • Home
  • About
Sign in Subscribe

James Harrison

Cardio for fat engineers

It turns out I'm not terribly good at sticking to blogging on a regular basis, but I'm not going to let that stop me from blogging on an irregular basis at least. My last post was in September - about 6 months ago - and plenty&
28 Mar 2026 7 min read

Actually eating less

So with the support of GLP-1 RAs and GIPs, I could eat less. Had to, to avoid nasty side-effects like vomiting etc. So how to go about it in a reliable, consistent way that works with a high-stress, time-poor week, as a confused audhd engineer? 💡This is part three of
19 Oct 2025 8 min read
A white pair of bathroom scales with a small screen embedded on them, next to an iPhone old enough to have a home button.

Levers and weight

⚠️This is part two of my series on burnout - you probably want to read part one first. Whenever I come across a problem I like to try to look at it from a systems perspective - reducing the problem down to some simple enough abstraction to reason about, working
04 Oct 2025 7 min read
A firepit, full of embers, charred wood and flames licking around a log.
Health Featured

Burning out

Time to start writing again. Let's talk about how I burned out, and what's next.
28 Sep 2025 8 min read
Page 1 of 1
Talk Unafraid © 2026
  • Sign up
Powered by Ghost