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Harry Ven
Jan 25, 20224 min read
Can technology guide us in our self-exploration?
One of the things that we do when we face difficult situations, is look inward. This is intuitive. But then, how we navigate our inner...
Harry Ven
Jan 22, 20225 min read
Can technology enable compassion?
Human beings are the biggest unpredictable variables we have out there. Our ability to trigger as well as solve for each other’s...
Harry Ven
Jan 21, 20222 min read
Your emotional suffering is now a business opportunity
PC —https://pin.it/7b4VSgH The mental health domain today is full of apps and solution providers asking people to try them out. Wherever...
Harry Ven
Jan 20, 20225 min read
The secret to building powerful safe spaces
A critical part of the conversation on mental health — especially organizational mental health, is the need and availability for safe...
Harry Ven
Jan 18, 20222 min read
The problem with facial emotional recognition technology
Recent research by Psychologist and Author Lisa Feldman Barret found people not being consistent when it comes to what does an...
Harry Ven
Jan 13, 20222 min read
Does our inability to distract ourselves lead to exploitation?
What choice does a tree have than grow like the tree it was born as? Earth gave life and the tree grew. For millions of years, humans...
Harry Ven
Jan 11, 20221 min read
23 observations about creativity
Image Source: https://www.boredpanda.com/beautiful-illustrations-unposted-letters-vimal-chandran 1. Creativity is removing the...
Harry Ven
Jan 7, 20222 min read
How technology is changing our emotional behavior?
What do you do when you are very stressed? What’s your immediate reaction? Do you take a break, watch a video, or go for a walk? Do you...
Harry Ven
Dec 14, 20213 min read
The tale of two voices inside me
Whenever I act it feels like there are two people inside me. One who reads the local news. I call him, Joey the local guy. The other one...
Harry Ven
Dec 2, 20214 min read
How I used a digital avatar to silence my negative self-talk?
I was going nuts. It felt like I was losing my mind. I can’t take this anymore, I told myself. Maybe I am just wasting my time. Maybe I...
Harry Ven
Nov 25, 20212 min read
How to identify your demon?
Emotions have both our angels and demons. They exist to help us see the opportunities and the dangers related to things that are important.
Harry Ven
Nov 23, 20213 min read
Born in Finland, Raised in Goa!
Konvos turns 2 today. It’s been exactly a year since we moved from Finland to Goa to bootstrap Konvos. Looking back, I am amazed at the...
Harry Ven
Nov 19, 20214 min read
The clue to better mental health is in our memory
"There is no such thing as a Psychiatric disease" — Fred Baughman For a long time now, the “chemical imbalance” theory was used to...
Harry Ven
Nov 16, 20212 min read
The "shocking" reality
Shock is perceived as negative by our minds. It has a high cost of processing, and reduces the chance of controlling the outcomes. We end...
Harry Ven
Nov 5, 20212 min read
What's up with me?
Every time I get stuck with a problem or feel anxious or don’t have any energy to act, I am clueless as to what is happening. I keep...
Harry Ven
Nov 2, 20211 min read
Can your mobile phone predict how you treat yourself?
Is your phone well maintained or has screen breakages? Did you ever throw and break your phone in anger? How often do you change phones?...
Harry Ven
Oct 29, 20211 min read
Are organizations serious about Employee Mental Health?
"Employee mental health is our priority” We keep hearing corporate organizations “talk” about this all the time. Solution? Mental...
Harry Ven
Oct 26, 20212 min read
Speed is over-rated
“The time clock in villages is slow”. I was talking to an agro entrepreneur 9 years back. He was explaining how things happen at their...
Harry Ven
Oct 22, 20211 min read
The "lip service" in Mental Health
“why don’t you take a mental healthcare break” “why don’t you focus on your mental health for a bit?”. One thing people who say such...
Harry Ven
Oct 19, 20211 min read
Can technology enable my Emotional Intelligence?
“I need an egoless entity that puts my ‘intelligence needs’ as the central part of its function” In a recent conversation, my therapist...
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