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HackMentalHealth Yale’s Collegiate Mental Health Hackathon
Including links to the finalists’ winning proposals It’s a wrap! HackMentalHealth’s first collegiate hackathon is over, filled with passion, laughter, and lots and lots of code! Read more to find out about the event including the top winners below! The Winners Each of the hackathon winners wrote their
Announcing HackMentalHealth 2019, The World’s Largest Mental Health Hackathons
Join us at Yale University on Feb 22–24, and UCSF Mission Bay on Mar 23–24 to innovate and redesign mental health + technology. * Get Yale Hackathon Tickets Here * Get UCSF Hackathon Tickets Here In the current century, mental health has become one of the biggest challenges our nation faces.
How can technology improve end-of-life and palliative care?
Lessons from a Technology + Palliative Care Brainstorm with doctors, chaplains, and palliative health experts at the University of Colorado Denver. Palliative care is a relatively new concept in the field of medicine. Historically, medicine has had a primarily curative goal. Yet, instead of focusing on curing a terminally diagnosed patient,
The Perfect Structure for Every Product Management Interview Question
7 simple steps to acing your next PM interview After coaching hundreds of PM interview candidates via PMLesson.com, I’ve realized that every great PM interview response employs a common underlying structure. Depending on the question, an interviewee may need to define the set of users or mention prevailing
Peak Minimalism: The Infinitowel
Minimalism is about reducing items. That’s why we’re introducing the only one you’ll ever need. Do you frequently lose your possessions? Do you feel like you keep buying more things that you don’t need? Wish you had fewer items that could handle more tasks? Don’t
So, Are You Supposed to Tip your Uber/Lyft Driver?
Tipping sucks, but we should still tip our ridesharing drivers. Here’s why. Last year, I drove for Lyft in the Denver area. I recently posted an article analyzing my tips, discovering that under a third of my riders actually tipped me. To my surprise, this article received polar reactions
Dear Chase: Your Travel Notice Is Broken. Here’s How To Fix It.
Bugs in the Wild is a case study series where I identify live internet bugs and propose product redesigns. The Bug Chase, like many banks, records user travel notices to prevent falsely detected credit card fraud. Chase offers a feature where users can set a travel notice online, without having
Bugs in the Wild: Instagram Setting Doesn’t Sync
Bugs in the Wild is a case study series where I identify live internet bugs and propose product redesigns. The Bug Instagram’s setting page lists a feature where users can toggle “Hide Inappropriate Comments” to hide offensive comments on Instagram. Here’s what it looks like on desktop and
I analyzed my Lyft driver tips, here’s what I found
Lessons from the road as a former Lyft driver in the Denver area. For rideshare drivers, tips are an important source of income. But what variables correlate to a large or small tip? Do controllable factors like conversation or the day of the week affect tip outcomes? I designed a
Control Technology, Not The Other Way Around
This post is part of a larger attempt to share my personal “systems” that help me organize my life. By sharing my system, I hope to get feedback and inspire others to share as well. The past few weeks have been an awakening for many with respect to technology usage.
Announcing The Reverse Hackathon — Ethics+Technology
It’s time to rethink technology. Technology news this week has been horrifying for many. A pedestrian was fatally hit by a self-driving Uber. Facebook is involved in a data breach of an incredible scale. Last month, Twitter put out a public call for more meaningful health metrics as a
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Try This: Text Only in Emojis 💬😃😞💬🤐
A silly experiment reveals fascinating insights about language In case you’ve been sleeping for the past twenty years, emoji usage has been going 📈📈📈. By mid-2015, half of all comments on Instagram included an emoji. Hollywood released a full feature-length film titled The Emoji Movie. Even Google’s CEO Sundar
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HackMentalHealth: 9 Lessons From The World’s Largest Mental Health Hackathon
Lessons from planning the world’s largest mental health hackathon in six months I was recently part of an amazing team of individuals to plan what now appears to be the world’s largest mental health hackathon, HackMentalHealth(our blog recap here). It was an incredible and inspiring event: not
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HackMentalHealth 2018: “The Movement Has Begun”
In the upcoming century, mental health is one of the biggest challenges our nation faces. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness: * 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness in a given year. * Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. for people
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Technology and the Mind: An Existential Psychotherapist’s Thoughts on the Meaning of Tech
With many in the technology sector inspired by Facebook’s 2018 mission to make its platform more meaningful, there’s been a greater conversation about the influence of technology on our mental health. To investigate this phenomenon further, I interview Dr. Nicolle Zapien, PhD, Dean, School of Professional Psychology and
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HackMentalHealth 2018: “The Movement Has Begun”
In the upcoming century, mental health is one of the biggest challenges our nation faces. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness: * 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness in a given year. * Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. for people
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Technology and the Mind: An Existential Psychotherapist’s Thoughts on the Meaning of Tech
With many in the technology sector inspired by Facebook’s 2018 mission to make its platform more meaningful, there’s been a greater conversation about the influence of technology on our mental health. To investigate this phenomenon further, I interview Dr. Nicolle Zapien, PhD, Dean, School of Professional Psychology and
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Shit Programmers Say, Translated
We all know that product managers speak the same lingo to explain what they actually mean. But software engineers are just as culpable of a common dialect with hidden meaning. Here are eight of the most common programmer sayings, translated. Disclaimer: I’m a former PM. But with the help
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3 Tech Tools For Meaningful Interactions
Social media FOMO. Video game addiction. Notification spam. When was the last time you caught up with someone who didn’t check their phone at all during the conversation? Admirably, Mark Zuckerberg’s latest post addresses the lack of meaningful online connection to be Facebook’s biggest challenge of 2018
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Shit Product Managers Say, Translated
“Hey, let’s close the loop offline. I’ll block some biweekly time for us to sync. Gentle ping to submit your AI.” What the heck are these PMs saying, and how did they all end up speaking the same language? Here are nine of the most classic phrases that
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Announcing HackMentalHealth — Silicon Valley’s Mental Health Hackathon
In the upcoming century, mental health is one of the biggest challenges our nation faces. According to the National Alliance on Mental Health: * 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness in a given year. * Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. for people
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Announcing HackMentalHealth — Silicon Valley’s Mental Health Hackathon
In the upcoming century, mental health is one of the biggest challenges our nation faces. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness: * 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness in a given year. * Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. for people
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I Hacked HQ Trivia But Here’s How They Can Stop Me
HQ Trivia, one of the hottest apps of 2017, is reinventing what game shows look like in the 21st century. On HQ, you can tune in live every day to answer trivia questions for the chance to win thousands of dollars. However, as HQ Trivia increases in popularity, it exposes