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A podcast conversation on Alignment Talks about the 30 seconds before someone decides to try therapy, and why India's real support system was never broken, just invisible.

The real answer to why mental health apps exist has nothing to do with technology. It's about the 30 seconds before someone finally decides to ask for help.

My second TEDx talk, on the gap between understanding happiness completely and actually living it, told through a decade of building mental health tech and one very honest couplet from Ghalib.

You will never get the banana if you lack the courage to climb. On why most people already know exactly what to do, and just won't do it.

A scene from Ford v Ferrari on why the system rewards visibility over excellence, and why it's still worth being the one who actually knows how to drive.

Awareness posters, one annual workshop, a buried helpline number nobody calls. Why most corporate mental health programs in India are built to look good, not to actually work.

Orwell said nothing is your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. Turns out even that's debatable now that your watch knows you're stressed before you do.

A TEDx talk about Zen koans, business paradoxes, and the questions that don't have answers. Sometimes the breakthrough comes not from solving the problem, but from accepting that it can't be solved.