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Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

New Census Data Shows Oregon Is Losing Residents in Their Prime Earning Years — Oregon Journalism Project

“A lot of what I’ve seen in terms of the dynamics and population really do have to do with affordability,” says former state economist Mark McMullen, now with the Common Sense Institute Oregon. “The places people are moving to are much less expensive than where they’re moving from.”

Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

We have basically given up all discipline and agency for a sort of addiction, where your highest goal is to produce the largest amount of code in the shortest amount of time. Consequences be damned.

It’s always super interesting to discuss AI. So many folks are enamoured of the potential. So many folks are figuring out ways to incorporate it into day-to-day activities. And so many folks are super concerned about the every growing number of virtual vacuums that run roughshod across the Web, tirelessly scraping the Internet for data to train their models.

I know I’ve been asking a lot of you lately. Surveys. Feedback forms. Attending things and stuff. Admittedly, I feel guilty. You’re already overly busy. But sometimes being a founder means figuring out how to effectively carve out time to address critical issues. No matter how busy you are. So that’s why I’m shoving that guilt way down and asking you to take this one: All Raise — led by Portland’s own Paige Hendrix Buckner — is running their annual community survey. And this year, the stakes feel different.

Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

Women.Money.Power – Portland Tickets, Thursday, Apr 30 from 8:30 am to 1 pm | Eventbrite

Join us this April in Portland for Women. Money. Power. — a gathering designed to celebrate women’s economic influence and create space to learn, connect, and be inspired.

I complained about the whole QSBS stuff in my own way. And I provided a very subjective perspective to the Oregon Prosperity Council. But someone finally did the math on SB 1507, the Oregon bill that disentangles Qualified Small Business Stock tax shelters from the federal tax law and establishes a 9.9% tax on QSBS returns. And — shocker — the numbers are worse than I thought.

Okay, procrastinator pants. I told you. But you’ve been pushing snooze on that task for a couple of weeks. So now I’m giving you the last minute warning. The Oregon Startup Center is accepting applications for the 2026 Beaverton Startup Challenge. And the deadline is this Friday, March 27, 2026.

Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

Put Claude to work on your computer | Claude

In Claude Cowork and Claude Code, Claude can use your computer to point, click, and complete tasks. Dispatch lets you assign them from your phone.

Thanks for putting up with my constant cajoling on the Oregon Governor’s Prosperity Council survey. I hope you got the chance to respond. Admittedly, I didn’t want to jaundice your response with my response. But now that the submissions have closed I wanted to share what I submitted. Again, my response was very myopically focused on the Portland startup community, as is my wont. I’m sure there were a wide variety of opinions and topic submitted. And I look forward to what the Prosperity Council does with all of this feedback.