David HirschfeldFounder & CEO, Tekyz Inc. · Founder & CEO at Tekyz Corp | Software Startup Acceleration, AI Experts, Workflow Automation, Board

From Tech Stress to Confidence

16 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker discusses the intense stress that arises when individuals must learn new technology they doubt can match their previous performance. He highlights the pressure on workers who have families and limited time, fearing that investing effort in unfamiliar tools could jeopardize their jobs. The speaker also points out that non‑technical leaders feel even greater anxiety because they must guide teams without fully understanding the technology. Finally, he observes a surge of fear, anger, and resentment on social media platforms like Facebook, where non‑technical and non‑business users express frustration and a desire for the tech changes to disappear.

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I have to learn something new on technology that I'm not sure can do what I used to think I could do as well. That's a huge stressor. Also, they're working. They're like all of us. We have wives and kids and families and spouses. And the idea, I got to carve out an hour to invest in something that could make me lose my job, could cause a problem. And then you see tech leaders in the middle, the non-technical people, and their stress is even higher. Because they're like, how am I gonna provide leadership for something that I don't understand? And then, and then the, the even worse is if we look at some of the Facebook channels, people who are non-technical and non-business at all, there is a phenomenal amount of fear and kind of latent anger and rage. I can't wait till this thing goes away. And if you read some of the posts,