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jasondrowley
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About jasondrowley
Currently: Startup stuff
Formerly: Deepgram, Capbase, Golden, Crunchbase [News], Mattermark, Mergenote, and UChicago
Volunteering: I help source and vet early-stage startups to get free booth space and conference passes at PyCon
It’s the most fun I have behind a keyboard every year.
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I can put things in a box that uses spooky electromagnetic waves to tickle water molecules to the point that they get hot and maybe boil off, given the chance? Sounds like magic to…
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For the past 10 years I’ve been a volunteer organizer of [Startup Row]( https://us.pycon.org/2026/attend/startup-row/ ) at PyCon US, and I wanted to let all the entrepreneurs and e…
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Up until recently I was editor at an AI company, and parts of this read exactly like some of the outputs I'd get out of GPT-4/ChatGPT Plus. Many of the linked references are too re…
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It's even more insidious than the situation you presented. If a company does not track PTO, it means that the company does not have to pay out accrued PTO to employees exiting the …
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While great in theory, the devil is in the details. So far, every company I've worked for has an "unlimited" PTO policy. In practice, it means that folks end up taking little/no PT…
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