Alex Ren

Alex has worked remotely for five years, launching products from the same desk, and clocking the long screen days that come with it. Burning eyes at 6 pm, afternoons rescued by working later: he has lived every pattern this blog writes about.

He built Pausr after failing to find a tool that did one simple thing: get you away from the screen at the right moment, without asking you to meditate or to "do more". Pausr is a macOS app for proactive breaks (eye breaks, stand-up breaks, real recovery), 100% local, no account.

On this blog he writes about attention, recovery and sustainable screen work, backed by published research rather than wellness folklore.