Understanding despair

Our community is getting better at talking about depression, but we might have a disadvantage when it comes to understanding it. It's not a puzzle to be solved, and not always something you can think your way out of. I want to show you how I came to understand what it means to have clinical depression, and the single most important thing we can do about it. Find out more >

Managing a Mind

Christopher Murphy is a writer, designer and educator based in Belfast. Adrian Shaughnessy, writing for Creative Review, described him as, "a William Morris for the digital age," an epithet he aspires to fulfill, daily.

The organiser of Break, a conference that 'questions the edges of design', he writes about design at Monographic and the importance of work-life balance at fsck. Informing his role as an educator, Murphy is a practicing designer whose work spans a variety of media, both analogue and digital.
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Validate Me

As creatives we struggle with fair amount of self-doubt. How do we free ourselves from relying on external validation of our efforts? How do we fight impostor syndrome and confirmation bias? How do we prevent ourselves from falling into the burnout and depression pit, or more importantly how do we recover?

Karolina is a designer, developer and photographer working with her friends at &yet. In her free time she contributes to various Open Source projects, writes and runs CSS Conf Oakland. She also owns a cat and an excessive amount of books on typography.
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Mental Health Advocacy in Tech

Dr. Jennifer Akullian is a psychologist and people developer at Keen IO, where she coaches her coworkers to be healthier, happier team members and humans. After migrating from the world of education and joining the technology community in early 2015, she quickly recognized a reality that beckoned her attention: lots of people in tech struggle with mental health, while industry-specific research and advocacy in the community is disproportionately inadequate.

In her own words: “The developer community needs to know this discrepancy exists, and that those struggling with mental illness in tech are not alone. There are strategic ways to support yourself, your colleagues, and your community. And mental health advocacy is the first step in meeting these needs.”
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Eating Disorders & Emotional Debt

Eating disorders affect over 70 million individuals worldwide. Despite the increasing number of people that suffer from ED, it is a seemingly shameful disease that many people don’t want to talk about. Eating disorders are a disease the breaks your relationships with everyone around you. A disease that often goes unnoticed by many and can end up being fatal.

Justine Arreche is a recovering bulimic and advocate for opening up the discussion about eating disorders and those affected in the tech industry. Understanding the struggles, signs and symptoms of an eating disorder could allow you to have the tools to help a fellow human who is suffering. Perhaps even save their life. Find out more >