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I've met the founders of one of the startups mentioned in the article. They're not from SV (or from the U.S.), and they'd hardly count as "tech workers". They
by tomhoward 7y ago
I've met the founders of one of the startups mentioned in the article.
They're not from SV (or from the U.S.), and they'd hardly count as "tech workers".
They're self-taught programmers who built their app in an effort to address their own anxiety, as well as a digestive illness that afflicts at least one of them, and for which university research has found hypnotherapy can be somewhat helpful (I have my own experience with these kinds of illnesses and therapies, which is why I took an interest).
You can sneer all you like, but these guys are nothing like the "SV tech bro" stereotype you're invoking, and they're earnestly working on a profoundly important problem: huge and growing numbers of people in the world experiencing mental health challenges and many (or likely, most) of them don't have the proximity or financial means to access in-person professional therapy or mindfulness coaching.