Things I write about: Impact of AI on society, work and education | Youth mental health | Women in tech | Innovation
I’ve joined Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce and Tumblr
I will be working across marketing, product and partnerships to drive growth. (My marketing friends, let’s chat about co-marketing partnerships!)
Your kid’s school doesn’t matter
Auren Hoffman, an entrepreneur and investor who likes to be contrarian, wrote a substack entitled ‘your kid’s school doesn’t matter’. Auren and I don’t agree on many things, but I wholeheartedly agree with his thesis here.
In defense of Rachel Whetstone
I experienced Rachel as smart, fierce, brave, principled, and empathetic and personal when it mattered.
Resilience in the Age of AI | AI’s impact on young people
Working with Wojciech Zaremba on OpenAI Foundation’s funding strategy for AI’s impact on young people
Ethan Mollick: “People like AI when they use it themselves; they don’t like AI writ large”
Why I like Ethan Mollick’s take on the love/hate relationship so many people have with AI.
The Swarm Org: Managing Humans and Agents
AI is changing the way we work. Our teams are becoming a mix of humans and agents, working in swarms.
Peers.net is joining WellSpace Health
Some big changes are happening with our company. Peers.net is moving to WellSpace Health.
The AI revolution is underhyped, not overhyped
Gen AI will have a bigger impact on consumers than the internet and mobile combined.
Rock Health’s Youth Mental Health Investment Report
Rock Health Youth Mental Health investment report features Flourish Labs.
Introducing the Peers.net Giveback Initiative: making professional peer support accessible to all teens and young adults
Starting today, for every peer support session purchased on Peers.net, we are donating one to our community partners.
From crisis to connection: professional peer support is our answer to the youth mental health crisis
Peers.net brings professional peer support to youth across America, now available for teens and integrated into Scout by Sutter Health
5 surprising things I have in common with economist Steve Levitt
What I learnt about Steve Levitt when I recorded a podcast with him.
We’re hiring!
We recently closed our seed round, and are hiring peer supporters & supervisors, product & marketing folks.
Digital mental health is in its infancy, and I’m excited to see what it can do when it grows up.
Thomas Insel thought piece on the state of digital mental health cuts through some of the hype surrounding mental health startups fuelled by $5.1 billion in venture capital investment in 2021, while pointing to the infinitely larger potential of applying technology to improve a system that today fails most people with mental health problems.
Introducing håp: a self-tracking app that fosters human connection
I posted this originally on the projecthap blog. I am reposting it here because it’s a big deal for me personally to have a beta version of our first product out. I love getting the first feedback on what we’ve built, it never gets old! Three months ago I left my job in a big tech company to set up…
Goodbye Campus London
End of an era: Campus London, Google’s space for entrepreneurs, won’t reopen its physical doors after the pandemic. I felt sad when I heard the news, but also grateful and proud: The reason Campus London is closing is that it worked, more than we ever imagined.
My next mission: Flourishing minds for all.
Today is my last day at Alphabet, after 15 great years at Google and X. I’m setting up Flourish Labs, a startup combining cutting edge mental health science and technology to foster flourishing and good mental health.
Betrayal and Love
This week is my 15 year anniversary of joining Google. Emi Nietfeld recently wrote a nuanced op-ed in The New York Times about her experience as a software engineer at Google, from joyful beginnings to being harassed by a coworker and the miserable aftermath of her speaking out about it. She talks about being in love with Google when she…
Stop apologising. Say thank you instead.
That was the message I got from Shellye Archambeau this week who shared her life and work lessons in a fireside chat with Xers. Shellye is an extraordinary leader who worked her way up from intern to tech CEO and board member during a time when there were even fewer women in tech than today, and even fewer Black women. A woman…
Empowering students and clinicians with mental health data
A user research report on opportunities for tech-enabled innovation in student mental health.
Sharing Project Amber with the mental health community
New open source resources to help researchers collect and interpret electroencephalography (EEG) data for mental health measurement
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“There is nothing artificial about artificial intelligence. A.I. is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, to impact humans’ lives and human society. No technology is more reflective of its creators than A.I.”
– Fei-Fei Li