Nora Rodden

Nora Rodden

Founder of Nervana

About

I’m Nora, Founder and CEO of Nervana, an AI-powered digital health company helping people with chronic symptoms improve their relationship with their symptoms. I started Nervana after my own years-long struggle with chronic back pain, GI issues, and insomnia. I saw countless specialists, tried multiple treatments, and spent thousands of dollars searching for answers, but nothing really stuck. With my background in biology and biotech, I kept looking for a scientific explanation. While earning my MS in Biotechnology and MBA at Harvard, I discovered research on the brain-body connection and learned how science-based mind-body approaches could help me recover. That experience inspired me to build Nervana to help people when they've tried everything under the sun for their symptoms.

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We made our AI forget everything every 30 days. Users started sharing more.

When we first built Murror, we stored every journal entry forever. More data meant better emotional pattern detection, smarter insights, richer reflections.

Our AI kept getting better. Our users kept getting quieter.

16h ago

What's one thing you still won't let an AI agent do unsupervised, no matter how good it gets?

not talking about the obvious stuff like "don't rm -rf prod", more the gray area tasks where the agent is probably right but you still want eyes on it before it goes out.

for me it's anything that changes a pricing table or a billing calculation. I'll let an agent refactor half my codebase overnight, but the second a PR touches how much someone gets charged, I read every line myself even if the diff is three characters. one off-by-one there and it's not a bug report, it's a support ticket and a refund.

23h ago

Your users don't want AI features. They want their problems solved.

I keep seeing the same pattern in product launches: "Now with AI!" slapped on everything like a magic label.

But here's what I've noticed from watching dozens of AI-powered products succeed and fail:

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