The Anxious Achiever / Season 3, Episode 8

Why Start-Up Culture Still Hides Mental Health Struggles

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TechCrunch’s Catherine Shu joins Morra to explore mental health culture in Silicon Valley.

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November 23, 2020

The tech industry is famous for its emphasis on productivity, life hacks, and winning at all costs. But that extreme culture of work isn’t always psychologically healthy for its workers.

Host Morra Aarons-Mele speaks with veteran tech journalist Catherine Shu, of TechCrunch, about improving mental health culture in Silicon Valley. And Shu shares her own journey with depression, including the time she spent in a psychiatric ward as a teenager, and how she found her way from there into tech journalism.

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