4 min readRead online #39 | Leading a Clinical Career With Trial & Error Lessons In Leadership With Dr. Jini K. Gopinath Hello dear reader, Every Applied Product Thinking for Therapists cohort, I invite a clinical leader to speak with current and past members. My selection criteria is rather daring. The speaker needs to be someone who will not only inspire the therapists of the cohort, but also inspire Prottoy, me—the two non-clinical members of TiNT—and all the non-clinical folks reading...
4 days ago • 5 min read
7 min readRead online #38 |Just Straight Up Too Many Updates Hello dear reader, You know this newsletter is handwritten because when things get really busy, I slip up from maintaining my publishing cadence. I haven't published the usual Monday Signals or a weekend deep dive for a good fortnight and I hope you'll forgive me this. July has been one juggle of a month, but for all good reasons and so today I come bearing a basket-full of sweet updates, freshly plucked and ready to share with you....
14 days ago • 5 min read
5 min readRead online #37 | What Tech Worker Sentiments Tell Us About MH Innovation Hello dear reader, I’m at a desk parked in front of a window at my home on the fourth floor of a residential building complex. I’m overlooking a little garden. It’s 8am on a Saturday morning. A handful of ladies are out for on a group walk. In one corner of the garden, an elderly club is assembling for what I can only imagine is going to be a laughter club. And then there’s a lean man, mid-30s, clad in nike...
29 days ago • 5 min read
8 min readRead online Before You Say Yes To That Unpaid Tech Gig Hello dear reader, Couple of weeks ago, I'd posted on LinkedIn asking if anyone was hiring therapists for their tech teams. My DMs flooded with over 20 inquiries. Two weeks later, only 6 relevant leads remained. All six were founders. Their asks ranged from recruiting therapists for PM and founders' office roles, to short-sprint product consulting user testing, and internships for fresh grads. I read all 6 JDs in detail—a mix of...
about 1 month ago • 8 min read
2 min readRead online #35 | Draw what you think alexa looks like Hello dear reader, Whether to have voice assistants in your house and around your family draws a rather polarised response at a dinner party. We swing from “God no! Can’t have that thing listening to me all the time”, to, “I love being able to play music from anytime anywhere!”. But those responses are from all the adults at that dinner party. What about the kids in the other room keeping themselves entertained with toys and...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
8 min readRead online What It Actually Takes to Be a Clinician in Tech Teams Tanuja Babre went from school-bench counseling sessions to building mental health tools with Meta, Google, UNFPA, and now Ally. This is her account of how. Hello dear reader, I write for a living. One of my favourite parts of this job is when I'm get to pen a packed piece that any therapist on any corner of this planet will find relevant, pertinent, and deeply relatable. Today’s piece is something like that! :) We...
2 months ago • 9 min read
5 min readRead online A Clinician's Guide To Curating Mental Health Innovation Content Hello dear reader, A tell-tale sign that this newsletter is still handcrafted and not AI automated is: once in a while, when life gets overwhelmingly full, we miss our publishing timeline. Which is what happened last weekend. Yash and I–both writers of this newsletter–were out doing life pro max. Yash was in Mumbai, closing out the final few days of his psych postgraduate program; while I was in San...
3 months ago • 6 min read
4 min readRead online The Throughline On new clinical jobs, therapists with foresight, and why the craftsperson survives every disruption Hello dear reader, Spring has come to my city. The birds are back, baby leaves on trees, flowers bloom aplenty and sappy as it may be, I’ve been humming “This could be the start, of something new, it feels so right, to be here with you, oh-oh”. On the same beat of something new, I write in a new format today, one that you haven’t read from me thus far. I...
4 months ago • 5 min read
min readRead online #31 | How To Open The AI Can Of Worms With Clients – Part 2 of 2 Hi there, this is Yash again! New name in this newsletter (I know), so here’s a refresher: I’m the content and outreach guy at TinT, while also a trainee therapist at TISS, Mumbai. It’s my last few weeks as a trainee, and I’m cherishing my days here, as I sit down to write this week’s edition. *Last time, we talked about the first side of this conversation: how to explore your clients’ use of AI without...
4 months ago • 5 min read