Looking after your wellbeing at DjangoCon Europe
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Looking after your wellbeing at DjangoCon Europe
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#2Hooray for mental health awareness! I wonder if any of the big tech companies (Goog, FB, Appl) do anything like this, or more generally, do anything to help with employee mental health wellness.
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#3What a great idea, and how very well done (the anonymous post-it note booking system). Kudos to the organisers for their prescience and understanding of their attendees, more of this please!
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#4correct the typo DjanoCon -> DjangoCon
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#5Go Daniele, such a great guy and a passionate organizer.
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#6Hooray for mental health awareness! I wonder if any of the big tech companies (Goog, FB, Appl) do anything like this, or more generally, do anything to help with employee mental health wellness.
One example could be Google. It has initiated and developed mindfulness based Search Inside Yourself program. http://siyli.org/
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#7"To complicate matters, most of the people in the industry are young men, a cohort not good at acknowledging their own problems, or understanding other people’s."
Does this not seem like oversimplification and rampant stereotyping?
I am a "young man" (well, below 30 anyway, though in SV I'm probably a bit long in the tooth), and it hurts to be constantly and systematically belittled in this manner. I have problems, and other people in the industry do too. Singling out one particular gender and age group and making them the bad party doesn't help anyone.
A great related article: (http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2014/06/on-depres...)
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#8"To complicate matters, most of the people in the industry are young men, a cohort not good at acknowledging their own problems, or understanding other people’s." Does this not seem like oversimplification and rampant stereotyping? I am a "young man" (well, below 30 anyway, though in SV I'm probably a bit long in the tooth), and it hurts to be constantly and systematically belittled in this manner. I have problems, a…
I read the first two paragraphs and thought "finally, something about people having problems without bringing men up as a bogeyman (in the context of tech)". But oh well.
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#9Such a fantastic idea. There really needs to be more awareness on Mental Health and this is a great step towards that.
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#10"To complicate matters, most of the people in the industry are young men, a cohort not good at acknowledging their own problems, or understanding other people’s." Does this not seem like oversimplification and rampant stereotyping? I am a "young man" (well, below 30 anyway, though in SV I'm probably a bit long in the tooth), and it hurts to be constantly and systematically belittled in this manner. I have problems, a…
I read that sentence as 'there is a systemic problem in society that young men aren't allowed to be fragile, sad &c' and that with the overlap between men in tech and that problem, we have an opportunity to give you a nudge in the right direction, should you need it.