Writing

The healthcare system can sometimes feel like it’s not working on our behalf, leading to a loss of trust. When trust erodes, we lose our sense of empowerment. Our sense of agency disappears. Outcomes deteriorate.  This isn't inevitable. Instead, people-driven [...]  Read more

Co-authored with Jared Hecht USV invests at the edge of large markets being transformed by technological and societal pressures, and we believe that healthcare is at a transformational inflection point.  At the edge we have a confluence of movements ranging [...]  Read more

The state of mental health in the US is abysmal. 1 in 5 American adults report suffering from mental illness–and nearly 1 in 3 between 18 and 25. A core piece of our thesis at USV focuses on broadening access [...]  Read more

The original paparazzi is thought to be Tazio Secchiaroli, famous for his 1958 photograph of King Farouk of Egypt sitting in a cafe in Rome with two women, neither of them his wife. The former King tried to break Secchiaroli’s [...]  Read more

In “Illness as Metaphor”, Susan Sontag wrote "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick...sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify [...]  Read more

Part 2: Four Ideas for 3.0 In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about the transition from 2.0 to 3.0 in mental healthcare technology and why we are paying attention to it. What might it look like to create [...]  Read more

Part 1: The 2.0-> 3.0 Transition If mental health technology was like language-learning solutions, we have been in the language CD and tapes phase for the last decade or so. The shift from language textbooks to CDs was a 1.0->2.0 [...]  Read more

Andy Warhol once said, “It’s really much more interesting what you see walking from one gallery to another than what you see in the galleries.”  What he likely meant is that the best art is simply watching people. Watching them [...]  Read more