Jackson-Solway

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by Jackson-Solway 7mo ago
Yea, the history is honestly pretty ugly. Lots of religious cults. And also billionaires with visions for a tech utopia of one flavor or another and, why, look at that—rich people won't have to pay taxes any more! I agree the Shakers a
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by Jackson-Solway 7mo ago
(Founder) Honestly, I'm a huge supporter of large-scale immigration. It just has to be legal. And I'd prioritize 2-parent families above everyone else. I can tell you're being snarky and maybe think I'm some Ultra MAGA c
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by Jackson-Solway 7mo ago
Founder again. It might be. Or it might not be. I mean this in all sincerarity, if you're having that reaction, I invite you to join the waitlist to move to the city. I've come to believe that people are mean and dismissive online
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by Jackson-Solway 7mo ago
Founder here. Just now seeing this made it to HN yesterday. Yes, you're right: it's political. The whole thing is deeply political. I worked in tech in SF from 2010–2020 and one of the big mistakes of the era, IMO, was pretending
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by Jackson-Solway 7y ago
Ack, unfortunately not publicly. Confidentiality agreements :/ We are permitted to share work privately though. Feel free to email me: jackson@jobportraits.com
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by Jackson-Solway 7y ago
Good points all around! For the record, if you (or someone on your team) can write great posts quickly solo, that's awesome and I'd never dissuade it. But a lot needs to go right for that to be possible. For an individual to pull
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by Jackson-Solway 7y ago
My company [1] writes technical blog posts as a service [2]. We mostly work with Bay Area startups. Some key observations and learnings: - Many companies have tried to create engineering blogs, but you'd never know because the first po
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by Jackson-Solway 7y ago
I can add a few things here. (I'm a cofounder at Job Portraits[1], an employer branding studio in SF.) In our experience, successful employer brands turn on a startup's willingness to be transparent. Everyone in the Bay Area (not
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Clashes Erupt Across France as Taxi Drivers Protest Uber(nytimes.com)
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A startup tries its hand at fixing preschool admissions in SF(medium.com)
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Using journalists to tell stories about SF tech jobs(medium.com)
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by Jackson-Solway 13y ago
You're welcome! I talked with my dad last night and he's flabbergasted the book is now online (in blog form, at least). He still has all the original illustrations sitting in a flat file in our garage. We discussed what to do with
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by Jackson-Solway 13y ago
Side note: The illustrated portrait of Gates that accompanies this article was done by, drumroll...my dad! In fact, my pops did the illustrations for the entire series. Microsoft Press was one of his favorite clients back in the day. Growin
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Confirm your regional biases with this handy tool for parsing the Snapchat data(algorithmshop.com)
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by Jackson-Solway 13y ago
Photographer here... So I was just thinking: when was the last time a founder conducted a UX interview with a panhandler? Looking back on reporting this story, it strikes me that I don't know any startup people involved with the homele
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by Jackson-Solway 13y ago
Photographer here again... Haha—the idea has already come up! Stills are a little easier though, and probably more importantly, they're way less intrusive than full-on filming. There's just something nerve-wracking about knowing e
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by Jackson-Solway 13y ago
The photographer here... I completely agree it's not a long term solution, but I got the feeling from being with the team for two days that it might work in the mid term. The situation wouldn't be right for the vast majority of fo
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Science Breaks Free – Startup Portrait #1: Microryza(medium.com)
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My startup is dead; let me photograph yours?(medium.com)
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