Journal of a Not-So-Mad Schizophrenic
Deep, personal and unvarnished. A journal about schizophrenia, sobriety, connection, identity, creativity and trying to become a better human without pretending the road is tidy.
Level Up At Life
692 thoughts on overcoming and becoming. Short ideas about self-awareness, growth, resilience, thinking better and continuing to chip away at a better life.
🔰 Freewriter
Writing apps built differently.
I built Freewriter because I couldn't find a writing app that fit the way I wanted to write.
Through multiple incarnations, Freewriter has evolved, with each version adding new features and increasingly unconventional ideas. Instead of sanding off the weird edges, I've leaned into them.
Big startups have good reasons to avoid the crazy ideas. I don't. I can experiment, keep what works and throw out what doesn't. The result is a family of writing apps that are deliberately different, designed to get you out of your own way and get words onto the page.
They're unconventional. They're a little strange. And they work.
Why I write
Ideas are cheap. Living them is harder.
I write because the ideas that change our lives are rarely complicated. They are simply difficult to live. My books are about thinking clearly, creating boldly, understanding yourself and refusing to settle for the person you accidentally became.
About the author
Ricky Browne
Ricky Browne is an Australian self-help author, software developer and lifelong builder. For more than twenty years he has been creating things on the web, writing books, journalling, experimenting, getting things wrong and trying to understand what makes people tick.
His work explores self-understanding, creativity, resilience, mental health, human nature and personal growth, shaped by lived experience and the messy process of becoming.