MountainWest RubyConf 2013 Devs and Depression by Greg Baugues

Why HN readers recommended it

Repeatedly recommended in mental health threads for its honest storytelling that resonates with developers.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Confreaks

Topic

developer mental health

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

7

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Here's a great talk by Greg Baugues in which he discusses his own mental illness (bipolar type II and ADHD) and notes that often there is a fine line between a symptom of depression/mental illness and a trait of a successful developer: [VIDEO]

• I recommend this talk about depression and software developers: [VIDEO] There are newer versions of this talk, but I think this one has the most powerful storytelling.

• I am so sorry you're going through this. Remember, you can always procrastinate ending it all, and do it later while you examine other options. There is a community at DevPressed[1] of developers who struggle with depression. I am a developer and gave a talk …