Richard Ian Porter

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  • Andrew Yang 2020:

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    EDIT : I’ve added a more updated post on Andrew Yang here but I’ll leave this historical post up too! “since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it.” -Andrew Yang: attributed to Otto Von Bismark I’ve become a big fan of Andrew Yang. Why: Because our…

  • My Top 7 bits of advice for 2019

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    It’s a new year, some people like new years resolutions and some hate them. I’m not interested in the debate, but I have noticed that when people ask my advice or for suggestions I often end up saying the same things. I want to make it easier to reference and more widely available. You could…

  • My challenge, my exchange and my entreaty to you on this Independence Day: read, reflect, act.

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    (retro re-post from my Medium account, Jul 4, 2018 ) “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants” –Thomas Jefferson (or maybe it musn’t!?) I propose a trade: I ask for your attention in reading this note, your reflection after reading it and your action afterwards…

  • “Tell me about yourself”

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    My mission is to grow powerful people. To do this I learn, teach, and mentor so that they can better survive and thrive. I’m passionate about purpose, people, context and culture. I’m driven, and really always have been, to help people survive and thrive by understanding knowledge. I’ve always been hungry to learn more, know…

  • Hello world! and disclaimers

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    I’m starting a blog. Again. Way back in my teenage years I think I tried this with …xanga maybe? Anyway. With the recent breaches at Facebook, Google and the surveillance capitalism business model driving social media in less predictable ways I’ve decided I need a place where I can share as accurately as I can…

  • Every Veteran a Design Thinker

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    How skills gained in the military can be applied to solving everyday problems and how IBM values and leverages them [Note this post originally appeared on the IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Blog – I am re-posting it here as I tear down another site and post-dating it to when it was first posted there. ]…