Aneela Idnani
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Aneela Idnani is Cofounder & President of HabitAware (www.habitaware.com). HabitAware created it's Keen smart bracelet to help people “Retrain The Brain” from detrimental behaviors to positive ones. To do this, Keen creates awareness and mindfulness of hair pulling, skin picking and nail biting, which at their core are debilitating mental health conditions. Having grown up with hair pulling disorder, Aneela is now an outspoken mental health advocate, raising awareness of these very common yet unknown conditions. Aneela is a HAX hardware accelerator alumnus and her company recently received a research grant from the NIH to improve their device and validate Keen as a treatment for these disorders. Her life’s work (HabitAware) has been featured as a TIME Magazine 2018 Best Invention and in BuzzFeed, SELF Magazine, The Washington Post, Prevention Magazine and more.
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- The Rise of the Creative Technologist: How & Why Artists and Creatives Are Shaping the Future of AI
- How I Use Notion to Run my Publishing Company
- Escape the Screenshot Graveyard: Using Notion AI to turn notes, memos & screenshots into action, content, and next steps
- Lessons from Two Decades of Angel Investing
- AI Told You So Again: How I Built a $1B Unfair Advantage ... And So Can You (Meet OpenClaw)
- How to Go Public in 2026 Using an Initial Crowd Offering
- Building A Profitable Independent Newsletter
- 50 Ways to Leave Your Company in Ruins
- Build a Business that Isn't Soul Sucking
- The Good Years: Formative Tech Companies in the Twin Cities
- Deep Dives, Vulnerability, and Learning: The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) Method of Self-Reflection
- Shipping Atoms and Bits: What Building Physical Products Taught Me About Better Engineering Decisions
- Newbie Table
- Mega Minne Multi Indie Mini Arcade
- 3D Printing: Getting Started
- Boldly You: Showing Up to Your Life’s Purpose
- More... "Diagrams to Get your $hit together"
- Build A Bridge with Interactive Art
- Leave With Something You Made: Crop Art, Community & an Unlikely AI Assist
- The Five Poisons of Business: Transforming the Patterns That Hold Us Back
- Train AI To Be Your Employee
- Make your first video game with "just enough" AI
- Stop Fighting the LLM: Mental Models for Fast, Frustration-Free App Building
- The Startup Was a Financial Success. I Am Not Building It That Way Again.
- 10x'ing Myself and My Team: Leading With Agents, Not Just Using Them
- Leverage Your Experience: How to Land Your First Advisory Role
- Service to Software: Turn Your "How-To" into a Monetized Micro-App
- The Minnebar Scavenger Hunt: Powered by AI & Tape