What being disabled and chronically ill has been like for me and how it's affected how I build a company. I talk about consistency, pain, guilt and shame, rumination, and struggling to create. I also include an update of Laboratory de Cake, which will be structuring the podcast like a science paper! 

I can't solve the problems we are facing with the pandemic and climate change, maybe none of us can. I hope I can support disabled and chronically ill people to find a better standard of living, with more financial stability and overall freedom. We deserve more and the world can benefit from our talents.

I BELIEVE IN YOU. Please hang in there. 🧡

If you want to connect with me, you can find me @thecakelin on Twitter, Tiktok, and Instagram, and Gmail. I will give free advice to hx excluded identities looking to get into tech or build products (content or apps). Identities: disabled/chronic illness, BIPOC, LGBTQIA.

Schedule time to Ramble Rumble with me on Calendly!

[00:28] Introduction

[00:55] Solving problems… or not

[03:03] Consistency with chronic illness

Mentions: Brianne Benness, host of No End in Sight and NEISvoid

[06:02] Pain and justice sensitivity

[08:26] Guilt and shame

[09:50] Patterns (or how I realized I'm autistic)

[11:05] Am I still running? Rumination

[13:30] Tasty grant failure

[14:33] Defining disability and not selling my story

[18:21] Start where your data is

[19:40] My business hypothesis: self-experiments

Mentions: ikigai, MVPs, no code

[24:14] I have been in the brain struggles

Mentions: Amy Hoy and book Just Fucking Ship

[26:09] The first self-experiment, hopefully

[27:08] Personal data posters and object permanence

[28:52] Experiment pardners: could it be you??

[29:30] Homebase & capitalism concerns (money)

[31:20] Values

[32:24] Research on the harmony of breathing

Mentions: Racket podcasting app

[36:16] Thank you, please leave me a negative review

Image Description For Episode Artwork

[Graphic design image with diagonal split black and white background with many color elements, feels playful and bright. Middle of the image is the title which says “Defective Detective Podcast” half of which is white on black and the other half is black text on white. Black background has colored stars scattered on it. 

Top of the image, above the title, is 5 solid circles connected by grey lines. Half is on black background and half on white. One circle in the middle is split by the black and white backgrounds, the purple “body” circle. Circles on black are a red “technology” and a teal “brain”. On the white background is a yellow “relationships” and an orange “society”.

Bottom of the image, under the title, are 5 circles in an unconnected slanted T shape arrangement and with different labels. On black background, the bottom of the T is a teal “laboratory” circle and purple “materials and methods”. The top of the T shape is on white with 3 circles: yellow “introduction”, orange “results”, and red “discussion”.

Upper left corner is the nudges.io logo, an octopus in a beaker with 4 tentacles coming out in yellow, orange, teal, and red. Upper right corner is the cakelin logo, a mix of a hashtag and a slice of cake that has circuits for cake layers, colors are yellow, orange, teal, red, and purple. Lower left corner are the hashtags: @thecakelin, @nudgesio, @detfective.]