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Oh dang - I actually know the answer here.

TL:DR - Regulations are changing / unclear around prescribing medications online and this is them trying to get ahead of it.

Headway’s new facial-scan requirement is probably less about one company getting weird with biometrics and more about where telehealth regulation is heading: with COVID-era prescribing flexibilities, companies like Done abused controlled substance prescribing to the point that the DEA is now signaling that they will demand stronger identity proofing for controlled-substance prescribing.

But the implementation matters. Could you do all this through other means? Definitely. Would it scale as easily / get in Peter Thiel and VC's good graces by using their tool? Who knows.

All to say this is probably more about changing regulations in how care is provided online - and more companies should be expected to follow suit when it comes to prescribing controlled substances.

Decoder had an interesting interview with the CEO of Ford about how hard it is for car companies to maintain system standardization as vehicles become more computerized: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/20/22444294/ford-f150-lightn...

Give ME a break! I am ALSO from Pasco County and you well know the KKK used to sponsor road clean up in Moon Lake - so don't give me any of that "everything is fine and there's no racism problem here"

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Whereas I'm a therapist who's in tech...Goes both ways I guess.

This means something...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2JL0xABlrQ

...Facebook had a personal assistant service?

Additionally, the Machine Learning Crash Course Series from Berkeley is a good overall explainer of the concepts.

https://ml.berkeley.edu/blog/2016/11/06/tutorial-1/

I've had luck with a mixture of online courses like Datacamp (https://www.datacamp.com/) and finding projects to try on sites like Kaggle.

One of the most common frameworks to thinking about anxiety is CBT (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy). Basically there are both things that you’re doing and things that you’re thinking that trap you in a cycle of anxiety.

The symptom tsunamifury talked about is what we call Catastrophizing – that is you over-estimate / over-value negative consequences over positive or neutral ones. It’s not just “If I stop working or slow down, I might not make as much money,” it is instead, “If I even take time to slow down, all my peers will be better than me or I might miss that one opportunity that’s going to make or break my career and then my professional life will be over and I might as well spend my time making software for businesses in the middle of Oklahoma.”

What I’d try and get patients to do is to rationally evaluate the evidence that any or all of these might happen. Is one missed connection really going to make or break your career? Is one failed pitch? Do you know of any founders/devs who failed big and recovered? What makes you think you couldn’t do the same.

If you want to know more, here are some good places to start – mix of websites and articles. (Apologies in advance for the potato quality on some of these links – I’m slowly dragging my field into the 21st century.) I’d also recommend going to see a therapist – even if it’s just for a few sessions. It might be helpful to get an outside viewpoint on your current situation.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-practice/201212/cogn... http://www.getselfhelp.co.uk/step1.htm http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263389/ http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/anxiety-treatment.aspx

(Source: Me, I'm a psychologist who's done therapy with clients and now makes mobile apps. I tried to make this as HN-oriented as possible)

Nope, we're people too. We like meaningless rewards just as much as the rest of you.

Now please give me upvotes for this comment.

Hail Eris!

Product manager here, seconding Manager Tools as invaluable.

As someone who also works on this, and thinks about startup possibilities, I understand what you're going through. Sometimes I wonder if it's possible to sustain a business like this at all or if you just have to work toward an insurance company buyout.

Maybe we should all start a therapy group!