Jason Rowley

Jason Rowley



Jason D. Rowley does not like being wrong. He is a writer, startup founder, sometimes landscaper and gardner, and his library’s best customer. Jason is heavily involved with the entrepreneurship scene at the University of Chicago, where he studied political science before “taking a break” (e.g. dropping out, noncommittally) to work with his classmates on his current project, which will debut shortly. He’s written voluminous, ripsnorting articles for Flyover Geeks (now Tech.li) for over six months and publishes on Tuesdays. Edward Domain and others have described him as “obstreperous”, a label he wears with not inconsiderable pride. Jason, in spite of these claims, is a pretty nice guy.

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    How My Dead Hard Disk Saved Me

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    On Tuesday morning, when I usually publish my posts, I experienced one of those freak technological occurrences which remind users that their lives are increasingly digital, that they’ve come to count on their gadgetry’s continuous functioning, and that, day-to-day, they’ve placed a certain reverential faith in their machines’ seeming infallibility. I woke up to find [...]

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    Why We Go To Conferences

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    We’ve all had those moments, walking out of conferences with a pocket full of business cards, we get in our cars or onto the train to go home and doubt for a split second if that whole afternoon just happened. Conferences are peculiar. Whether one wants to dress it up as a “Summit”, a “Forum”, [...]

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    Why Inspirational Speaker-Entrepreneurs Are So Disappointing

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    What is it that makes a charismatic leader? Is it his or her message, or its delivery? Or is it something else, perhaps the inclination of the audience to believe it? In 1978, 918 people died at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project at the command of cult leader Jim Jones to commit “revolutionary suicide”. It [...]

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    Seth Godin, Look What You’ve Done

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    I picked up Godin’s book because I’ve never read anything about leadership written for the express purpose of inspiring or instructing or empowering would-be leaders. And I realized, after about forty pages, that all of my criticism of inspirational flimflam such as this, yeah, it wasn’t baseless. Sorry, Seth.

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    On Being an Entrepreneur: A Maker’s Manifesto

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    FG Reader, whoever you are, this is not another sardonic article from Jason Rowley. Consider it a mini manifesto. I want you to reclaim yourself.

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    Not Another Chernobyl

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    The still-developing situation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after last week’s devastating earthquake is not, I repeat, is not another Chernobyl, despite what headline writers and news anchors would like to claim. I assert that, while this crisis hasn’t killed as many people, or leaked as much radiation or fissile material as the 1986 [...]

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    Social News Curator Newsle The Most Promising Web Startup at 2011 Kairos Summit

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    The most promising new web startup featured at the Kairos Summit, Newsle, is a social news-curation tool built by a couple of whip-smart Harvard sophomores, Axel Hansen and Jonah Varon.

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    Kairos Seizes Its Moment

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    What differentiates the Kairos Society from other student entrepreneurship organizations is simple: it puts its money where its mouth is. And what a mouth it has.

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    Sin Offers Student-Org Gomorra A Path To Salvation

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    Sin’s EnvisionDo seeks to set itself apart from the hundreds of organizations already in the student professional/leadership-development field.

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    Schumpeter’s Nightmare

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    Joseph Schumpeter, 20th-century Austrian economist and progenitor of the notion of “creative destruction”, noted in a 1942 paper that “the function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production.” Schumpeter proposed they do this by disregarding existing bureaucratic systems and, in short, just go for it. The kinds of bureaucratic structures he [...]

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    On Twitter in #Egypt

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    It has been called the “Twitter Revolution.” The recent unrest throughout the Middle East and Africa has resulted, so far, in two toppled regimes, a number of deaths, and a lot of attention on the role that social media plays in politics and political change. It is easy to understand all the hullabaloo over social [...]

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    IncubatorU

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    Let’s pretend for one second that colleges were actually willing to do something like this. Since the great financial conflagration of 2007-’08, states have taken on massive debts, have threatened to cut budgets of higher education if the haven’t already, and even the wealthiest private colleges and universities have sustained large losses on their endowments, [...]

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