Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
AI in Practice Survey
We’re excited to announce our AI in Practice survey where we sought to map where adoption is happening, where the gaps are, and how teams are hardening and scaling AI in practice. Here’s what we found.
Stillness & Scale: Building a Startup from a Place of Peace
Having spent years in a perpetual state of doing—striving to extract things from life with the assumption it would lead to wholeness—I was determined that my entrepreneurial journey would be different: a canvas for exploring the co-existence of building something in the world and pursuing inner liberation.
Robotaxis and Suburbia – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
There are larger sociological and political questions around things like urban versus suburban living, just as there were when suburbs were built out in the first place. I do believe that the suburbs are very much back, and not just because I’m back in the suburbs; what will be a fascinating question for historians is the chicken-and-egg one between technology driving this shift, versus benefiting from it.
My next chapter with Mastodon – Mastodon Blog
I have so much passion for Mastodon and the fediverse. The fediverse is an island within an increasingly dystopian capitalist hellscape. And from my perspective, Mastodon is our best shot at bringing this vision of a better future to the masses.
Janique Bacharach of Bacharach Construction | Give!Guide Spotlight Story
When Janique Bacharach left a 14-year paralegal career to start a construction company with her husband, she wasn’t chasing a dream so much as creating a better balance for her family.. Seven years later, she’s the founder and principal of Bacharach Construction, a Portland-based firm that’s grown from $100K a year to $2 million in four years.
Joe Cortright and Leslie Carlson on Portland’s game-changing frogs – Portland Business Journal
In doing so, Portlanders did more than puncture fascism — they also punctured the tired narrative of a city in decline: a place overrun by homelessness, drug use, and street battles, with an empty downtown in the wake of COVID. Those challenges are real, and not unique to us. But Portland has unfairly borne the brunt of the nation’s scorn.
