In the Harvard Grant Study, the world’s longest running and most comprehensive psychological study, the five most mature, healthy defense mechanisms associated with higher life satisfaction were: 1. Altruism: focusing on others’ wellbeing 2. Humor: making light of difficult or

Recently re-read this. So good. I'm that middle class kid. I had my one throw, but now trying to afford more tickets for more throws, through things like freelancing. All the while just hoping I'll never have to go back to working at the carnival.

Here's a wild stat: 43% of white students admitted to Harvard are legacy, athletes, or related to donors or staff. 86% admit rate for athletes is insane.

We could all use a little more Susi cnbc.com/amp/2023/06/30…

Over 8 yrs ago someone singlehandedly pulled me out of poverty. Knew him because I trained with his wife who is a professional athlete. He was leading a group at Citi and I desperately wanted to be an analyst. Didnt have the resume for a fancy banking job but grew up in public

Something is seriously wrong here. We need to ask very seriously why. Stop treating young women as emotionally aberrant. Instead of trying to fix the young girl who feels hopeless, let's focus on repairing the world that adds to her hopelessness #teenmentalhealth

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles” #charliechaplin #mood #BlessedAndGrateful

Know this: Your biggest product/market fit hurdle? Believing you've nailed it when you haven't.

The below is a must read for everyone building in the current healthcare AI hype cycle It’s stories like this that set back innovation by years (yay, more skepticism). So please don’t sell smoke and mirrors, you are hurting the whole industry.

I do not have the stomach to really tweet on this, but there is one thing I have to say: It is hard to be a Jew, and watch so many people justify the murder of other Jews, the kidnappings, the brutality. It is especially hard to see it from people I know and once respected.

Today at @HLTH, we announced a big leap forward in our Health Assurance journey. Introducing HATco - Health Assurance Transformation Corporation - a new company owned by General Catalyst & focused on accelerating the transformation of healthcare delivery. Part of HATco's plan is

We have a collective of people who can’t stop scrolling, struggle to get in the shower, and procrastinate every day. Our nervous systems are so overstimulated, we’re stuck in fictional freeze. More dancing, singing, hugging, being in nature, and creating.

Oh look! it's not that difficult after all...

Just had a heartfelt conversation with a founder about his company's wind down. Writing it up for my newsletter. So important that this kind of content is represented, not just "look how great I'm doing or well I'm doing" stories. I learned SO much & I think you will too.

As a dear friend pointed out this morning, digital health has seen a lot of unicorns in the private market. Very few stayed unicorns once public. We need to focus on creating good companies that have staying power, not returning funds on VC timelines.

There is so much truth in this one statement!

Agree 100% .... "Digital health startups are facing a "have and have not" moment" secondopinionmedia.substack.com/p/digital-heal… Christina Farr

Confrontation. Everybody likes to confuse emotional repression with maturity.

Leaving this here. We can’t simply do nothing about it. “…we have been raising children in an environment that is hostile to human development.” Mental health is down and fragility is up amongst the young. The parents aren’t alright either. Let’s speek!

Last week-end we did a thing and launched our new website❗️ The last few weeks have been a lot of grind-it-out kind of work, but it is SO worth it. Huge kudos to our Design, Content and Engineering team🚀 Check it out and tell us what you think 💬 lets-speek.com