Ryan Weald

@GrabowskiDylan The Shiba one is the real killer for me haha. Hard to get people to understand the importance of Dev experience for long term though.

Just an FYI for @trydaily production users. I'm seeing a weird bug using the new prebuilt UI where bluetooth headphone connect/disconnects on mobile breaks audio for the session. Suddenly people can't hear each other 😂 😭

Excited for my part in this next phase

The nonprofit I helped found, All Mental Health, is undergoing a transition. Some might say we are closing or "failed", I believe we found a different way to maximize the impact of the products we've built. linkedin.com/pulse/all-ment…

@beaucronin @halcyon_health Good point, hadn't even thought about "space" given years and years in the startup world and talking to clinicians/researchers so much. All good feedback for rewiring language habits, thanks! Got to start somewhere and I appreciate you sharing.

@rweald @halcyon_health Ok, and it’s not a space, and I’ve never heard anyone in the rooms use the term SUD. That’s startup and clinical language, respectively, and neither is going to bring you closer to those of us in recovery.

I’ve watched this at least a dozen times. Never realized how dehumanizing “in and out of rehab” formalization is. Each of those times represents a profound personal crisis, and many of us die in between.

It takes energy to prepare and be in a good headspace for calls. Respect the time commitment and send an email to cancel, even if it's a fake excuse. Then I can get the time back to build software.

Engineers, when accepting interviews from early stage startups, please remember the person you're going to talk to is probably a fellow engineer. I've had candidates no show for 3/12 calls, all with confirmed calendar invites and no cancellation email.

@chrissyfarr @libbybrittain @foung Agreed. Positive ROI when taken holistically. How much saved in R&D across all the companies that later benefit from IP and product ideas? How could you embrace this as a VC? Pre-fund early company in an area knowing failure but save cost for other portfolio companies later?

@rweald @libbybrittain yeah, I was talking earlier with @foung around this. How do you define value/success? Not a huge win via any venture investors' expectations, but a potential success story for patients nonetheless.

CLASSIC digital health: A study just came out on how Lantern, a mental health start-up, could help college students with eating disorders via its digital CBT program. The results came out 2 years after Lantern folded its operations and sold its IP. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

@chrissyfarr @libbybrittain Yes it's had quite the life after death. Lantern will end up being like Xerox PARC, tech that underpins a bunch of future successful products/companies 😂

@rweald @libbybrittain I see the Lantern IP everywhere

@libbybrittain @chrissyfarr Confusing shutdown page, but a group of ex-lantern folks, myself included, spun off a non-profit to try and keep providing digital mh content. It's a separate entity that built new product from scratch. Lantern never really pivoted, it was always digital cbt with human coaching.

@chrissyfarr Didn't know (and just saw on their shutdown page) that they had pivoted from an app with written content for caregivers.

@chrissyfarr 2 years post closure is bad enough, but it's really more like 5 years since we [Lantern] stopped commercializing a disordered eating product. Timeline when working with respected academics in the field is brutal.

Point being: Companies are asking to generate evidence so they can get reimbursement from payers. But venture time horizons often don't account for how long that takes.

Hot off the press my first post on maturing as a software engineer. @ryanweald/dont-let-emotions-bias-your-time-estimates-137ac30e6808" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@ryanweald/don… #SoftwareEngineer #management #startuplife

Started my tech blog back up in a new home. Different type of content than the old days, but hopefully still valuable. @ryanweald/hello-new-blog-goodbye-lantern-31784c05a2f9" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@ryanweald/hel…

So true! I've definitely been guilty of forgetting that fact. twitter.com/jayspectech/st…

"When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code." - Richard Pattis

Congrats Dad! @HP has acquired @voltagesecurity Excited to see the big data security develop. bit.ly/1vAL12H

Nice to see all our hard work @golantern getting press coverage on bloomberg. bloom.bg/1zDVJDR

Great post by @John4man. “Surviving Data Science at the speed of Hype” bit.ly/1EUJ80L

Stumbled onto this post that made me think about some of my own potential biases when hiring. Thanks @ashedryden ashedryden.com/blog/the-ethic…