Author: Richard

  • Do good with your career! 80,000 hours

    As I’ve shared before I’m driven by a personal mission in life: to grow powerful people: to learn and teach so that others can better survive and thrive through understanding knowledge! I’ve been very struck recently with the concepts of effective altruism, of doing good even better with careful consideration and measurement of impact. For…

  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and the Twitterstorm

    One thing is for sure, people care more about Multi-factor Authentication than most people would have thought. The (unending – but the latest) news about Twitter’s fast and likely ill considered changes continues. Right now they’re talking (and trending) about Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). In a nutshell, Twitter will be requiring anyone who wants to use…

  • Doing Good, Better.

    I’ve finally read Doing Good Better. And I couldn’t recommend it more highly. I wish I had read this years ago (like many books.) I’m sharing my review both here and where I wrote it on GoodReads. I also gave an intro to it and shared it on YouTube or sharing-ready on LinkedIn Who should…

  • What this Marine learns from Malala’s Children’s book: Malala’s Magic Pencil.

    One voice can change the world. There are few books that choke me up and move me to tears. That cause a deep and aching sadness in me. There are even fewer children books that have this effect. Malala’s Magic Pencil is one of these. My oldest daughter has been getting more and more skilled…

  • Strategy-Bot: Chat GPT

    I asked Chat GPT to synthesize the competitive analysis frameworks that I have found most useful in my work as a Product Manager. It did a decent job of the summaries overall but made a critical error in part of its meta-analysis. Here’s what I think is the best it did: I’ll paste the full…

  • ChatGPT: cant chat for me (-yet on LinkedIn)

    A good friend of mine raised an interesting point on LinkedIn: I drafted my genuine thoughts on the response, then fed that to Chat GPT to see if it could strengthen the point. Instead it made it more wordy, fluffy, omitted what I saw as the most insightful point, and took it in a few…

  • Goodbye 2022, Hello 2023

    Change of year reflections Instead of New Years resolutions or even advice for the year as Ive done before. I thought this year I would reflect some on things I did that have served me well, things I would like to do more of, and things that maybe I should leave behind as much as…

  • In a nutshell: Chat GPT is designed to sound good, not be right.

    I tweeted this simplification. But it really is the most punchy insight I have so far. Lots of chatter about Chat-GPT. It’s important to try it out yourself to get a sense for it. But in essence the 20% learning that delivers 80% of the insight for this moment right now is: it is designed…

  • Richard I Porter (dot com), now with more AI

    So, I’ve started playing with Chat GPT-3. You should try it out too. It’s been called the iPhone moment of AI. It may be. I’m going to be using it to help in nearly all my writing for as long as it’s free. I will be tagging any post that included help from Chat GPT-3…

  • What a wild world

    Things in the world seem to move so fast. I find myself still trying to process what was happening back in 2019. Back when my second daughter was born and the pandemic kicked off in the first place. Since then it seems its just been a deluge of occurrences and I haven’t really kept up…