This weeks episode features Paolo Ciarrocca from Kin. He was on the very first cohort of Creative Bridge, and sits firmly in the tech camp of the creative industries. He’s been an invaluable mentor for non technical folks interested in scoping out building software, and mentored many Creative Bridge alumni. He has also retrained as a counsellor, and in this episode Oli and Paolo talk a lot about the impact of tech on mental health - how we can build better products that put the human first, and don’t create stress or anxiety for the user.
Paolo Ciarrocca is the co-founder of Kin, a web studio that specialises in building human-friendly websites and web applications that work for everyone, everywhere.
He is an "old internet person" nearing his 30th anniversary of being online and started coding not long after that. Having seen a number of "Next Big Things", "too big to fails", "One True Ways" come and go, he focuses on the human side of tech with a particular focus on mental health and accessibility.
