Helm Founder Notes

You Have Observability for Your Systems. You Have None for Yourself.

A founder's note on the burnout signals I missed in tech—drawn from lived experience and shaped with Ascenda's psychology and neuroscience team.

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By Nathan Challen · Apr 9, 2026

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