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jpbutler

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About jpbutler

Jason Butler from Concord, Massachusetts. I like to build tools that are useful, friendly and smart.

CTO at Youth, Inc., helping youth athletes and their families thrive.

Creator of Serendeputy, Formerly Senior Director of Product at NPR, VP Product & Technology at Compass Aging, Co-Founder of Practically Green, Product Development at Boston.com, New York Times, Abuzz, Amazon.com and PlanetAll.

http://linkedin.com/in/jpbutler

http://twitter.com/jpbutler

http://jpbutler.com

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    Youth Inc | Software Engineer | ONSITE/HYBRID Boston Youth Inc. is a venture-backed commerce and media company focused on the youth and high school sports market. We’re looking for…

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    Youth Inc | Head of Engineering | Chicago, Nashville or Boston Youth Inc. is a venture-backed commerce and media company focused on the youth and high school sports market. We are …

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    Youth Inc. | Staff Engineer / Technical Lead | Hybrid Boston, Hybrid Chicago or Fully Remote (US) for exceptional candidate Youth Inc. is a venture-backed e-commerce marketplace fo…

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    Youth Inc | Senior Elixir Engineer | On-site Hybrid Boston, USA | Full-time At Youth Inc., we’re on a mission to empower youth athletes and their families with trusted content and …

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    Youth Inc ( https://youth.inc ) | Front End Engineer, Elixir Engineer | Remote (US) | Full Time Youth Inc. is a digital media network and commerce marketplace working to help youth…

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    Nothing you do on Serendeputy will affect anything on Twitter -- I'm not trying to play any viral games. That was a easy first principle to start with. I'll keep working on the too…

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    You need a Twitter account to sign up. You don't need to have a super-active Twitter account for it to be useful -- the links coming through Twitter seed it for you, but you contro…

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    Thanks, I hope you find it useful! Please feel free to shoot me any ideas for what you'd like :-)

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    I've been using Elixir for 4+ years, and I'm very happy with it. I'm a one-man band, so the talent pool isn't an issue. My biggest joy is that once you get the application working,…

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    Congratulations to José and the whole core team! I've been working exclusively with Elixir and Phoenix for the past four years, and it's been a delight.

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    A lot of the college radio stations have HD2 streams which are really good, too: XPN2: https://xpn.org/xpn-programs/xponential-radio KCRW Eclectic 24: https://www.kcrw.com/music/sh…

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    Data point of one: I'm on one of these networks, here in Concord, MA, and it's amazing. We already had municipal power, so it's the same organization and the same bill. I've been r…

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    I would love for the powers that be to fix Route 2. The neighborhood roads in Concord and Acton are almost unusable at rush hour from Waze, etc. routing around Route 2. It has gott…

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    I believe it's a reference to Samuel Johnson's quote: "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."

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    Comment #10565934

    I've really enjoyed "Search Inside Yourself," a book by the person who runs the courses at Google. It takes an engineering eye to the benefits of mindfulness.