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Such hate. Such dismay. “How Slack is ruining work.” “Actually, Slack really sucks.” “Slack may actually be hurting your workplace productivity.” “Slack is awful.” Slack “destroys teams’ ability to think, plan & get complex work out the door.” “Slack is a terrible collaboration tool.” “Face it, Slack is ruining your life.” Contrarian view: Slack is […] Continue reading Against the Slacklash
When everyone always tells you ‘yes’, you can become a monster. Leaders especially need honest feedback to grow. “If you look at rich people like Donald Trump and you neglect them, you get more Donald Trumps” says Torch co-founder and CEO Cameron Yarbrough about our gruff president. His app wants to make executive coaching (a […] Continue reading Torch takes $10M to teach empathy to executives
In a white concrete cell, a doctor from the DoS sat across a plastic table and questioned Catherine Gabriel as to why she had chosen misery over standard-issue happiness. Continue reading The Department of Suicide
When researchers measured the welfare of hundreds of people who left Facebook for a month, they found they were happier, less politically informed, more active in IRL activities, and less likely to go back to Facebook. Continue reading Leaving Facebook Makes You Happier and Less Informed, Study Finds
A new study out of Johns Hopkins University seeks to reclassify psilocybin mushrooms since they have low potential for abuse and few risks of dependence. Continue reading Researchers Want Doctors to Be Able to Prescribe Magic Mushrooms for Depression
Quite often we see applications of hacking and DIY in the medical field. From 3D printed prosthetics to hacked insulin pumps, there’s a wide variety of stuff you can do, but what about psychology? That’s what our Hack Chat this Friday is all about.
Our guest for this week’s Hack Chat is Curt White. He’s been building medical devices for years, and when he’s not doing that he’s creating interactive installation art and costumes. At work he’s a device and sensor developer at the Child mind Institute MATTER Lab where he designs and researches wearable medical devices for children with …read more
Continue reading Friday Hack Chat: Hacking For Mental Health
Last week, I drove 1100 miles by myself because I couldn’t get on a plane; we are all fighting a battle and this is mine.
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We all know that the mind can affect the body in dramatic ways, but we tend to associate this with things like the placebo effect or psychosomatic illnesses. But subtle clues to the mind-body relationship can be gleaned from the way the body moves, and these hacked fitness monitors can be used to tease data from the background noise of everyday movements to help treat mental health issues.
Over the last few years, [Curt Smith] of the Child Mind Institute has been able to leverage an incredibly cheap but feature-packed platform, the X9 Pro Sports Bracelet, a fitness band that …read more
Continue reading Hacked Fitness Trackers Aim to Improve Mental and Physical Health
‘What, exactly, are the symptoms of gaming disorder? Or are we to presume that clinicians will know it when they see it?’ Continue reading Mental Health Experts Warn Against World Health Organization’s Definition of ‘Gaming Disorder’
The Montreal Cognitive Assessment is an effective test for detecting early signs of Alzheimer’s Disease, but it doesn’t determine if you’re a “very stable genius.” Continue reading Trump’s Cognitive Test Asked Him to Draw a Clock and Remember What a Lion Is Called