Thoughts on Mental Health - Erik Torenberg

Housekeeping: We launched an experiment around back-channel references as a service, specifically a back-channel bounty marketplace (upvote us on Product Hunt!). I’m curious to test the following: 1/ Will people want to pay to get references? 2/ Will people want to get paid to give references — will it expand the pool of people who want to give references? 3/ Will money taint the reference in somehow, will people be less happy with it? 4/ Could this back-channel method work in other categories, like for getting warm intros to buyers in target companies? As a reminder I’m hiring for Turpentine and my other projects (more roles than the ones listed here). I also spoke about the vision for Turpentine in an interview here. A couple years ago I wrote about the rise of therapy culture. Mental health framing has recently made me skeptical for a number of reasons. One reason is that, in under a decade, it’s become high status among elites. I heard a comedian say he started seeing a therapist a

Housekeeping: We launched an experiment around back-channel references as a service, specifically a back-channel bounty marketplace (upvote us on Product Hunt!). I’m curious to test the following: 1/ Will people want to pay to get references? 2/ Will people want to get paid to give references — will it expand the pool of people who want to give references? 3/ Will money taint the reference in somehow, will people be less happy with it? 4/ Could this back-channel method work in other categories, like for getting warm intros to buyers in target companies? As a reminder I’m hiring for Turpentine