8 min readRead online Before You Say Yes To That Unpaid Tech Gig Hello dear reader, Couple of weeks ago, I'd posted on LinkedIn asking if anyone was hiring therapists for their tech teams. My DMs flooded with over 20 inquiries. Two weeks later, only 6 relevant leads remained. All six were founders. Their asks ranged from recruiting therapists for PM and founders' office roles, to short-sprint product consulting user testing, and internships for fresh grads. I read all 6 JDs in detail—a mix of...
5 days ago • 8 min read
2 min readRead online #35 | Draw what you think alexa looks like Hello dear reader, Whether to have voice assistants in your house and around your family draws a rather polarised response at a dinner party. We swing from “God no! Can’t have that thing listening to me all the time”, to, “I love being able to play music from anytime anywhere!”. But those responses are from all the adults at that dinner party. What about the kids in the other room keeping themselves entertained with toys and...
17 days ago • 2 min read
8 min readRead online What It Actually Takes to Be a Clinician in Tech Teams Tanuja Babre went from school-bench counseling sessions to building mental health tools with Meta, Google, UNFPA, and now Ally. This is her account of how. Hello dear reader, I write for a living. One of my favourite parts of this job is when I'm get to pen a packed piece that any therapist on any corner of this planet will find relevant, pertinent, and deeply relatable. Today’s piece is something like that! :) We...
about 1 month ago • 9 min read
5 min readRead online A Clinician's Guide To Curating Mental Health Innovation Content Hello dear reader, A tell-tale sign that this newsletter is still handcrafted and not AI automated is: once in a while, when life gets overwhelmingly full, we miss our publishing timeline. Which is what happened last weekend. Yash and I–both writers of this newsletter–were out doing life pro max. Yash was in Mumbai, closing out the final few days of his psych postgraduate program; while I was in San...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
4 min readRead online The Throughline On new clinical jobs, therapists with foresight, and why the craftsperson survives every disruption Hello dear reader, Spring has come to my city. The birds are back, baby leaves on trees, flowers bloom aplenty and sappy as it may be, I’ve been humming “This could be the start, of something new, it feels so right, to be here with you, oh-oh”. On the same beat of something new, I write in a new format today, one that you haven’t read from me thus far. I...
2 months ago • 5 min read
min readRead online #31 | How To Open The AI Can Of Worms With Clients – Part 2 of 2 Hi there, this is Yash again! New name in this newsletter (I know), so here’s a refresher: I’m the content and outreach guy at TinT, while also a trainee therapist at TISS, Mumbai. It’s my last few weeks as a trainee, and I’m cherishing my days here, as I sit down to write this week’s edition. *Last time, we talked about the first side of this conversation: how to explore your clients’ use of AI without...
3 months ago • 5 min read
7 min read@be_tintwebsite What Therapists Need to Know About Data Privacy in Mental Health AI Hello dear reader, Confidentiality has always been one of the cornerstones of the therapeutic relationship. Clinical practice evolved around the architecture of closed doors, quiet rooms, and deeply held secrets. But increasingly, some parts of therapy live inside software systems. Notes are typed into digital platforms. Assessments are completed through apps. AI models are trained on patterns of...
4 months ago • 8 min read
5 min read@be_tintwebsite #28 | Innovation From Clinicians – Part II Hello dear reader, The days seem long and yet the weeks pass by too quickly as we enter the third month of 2026. I slot an hour on the last day of every month to reflect upon my journey of building TinT and acknowledge the distance travelled. In the 10 months that TinT has been running, the most memorable glimmers have been moments when we've crossed paths with clinicians who tinker with making and building. This edition...
4 months ago • 5 min read
5 min read@be_tintwebsite #27 | Budget and Mental Health Innovation Hello dear friends, “Low and middle-income countries present a massive opportunity for digital mental health.” This was the start of a LinkedIn post from a couple of weeks ago. I love reading this creator and sincerely believe they do a great job at it. However, this framing infuriates me. Yes, factually speaking, the business opportunity is real. But rarely does the discourse go beyond opportunity identification. If LMICs...
5 months ago • 5 min read