Richard Ian Porter

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  • On loving kindness

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    May you be happy O daughter of mineMy little winter bearSnuggled on my chest May you be free from painAs the IV and tubes feed youAs the monitors beep vitalsAs you wiggle on me May you be free from suffering As you snuffle around your ET TubeAs the ventilator brings you 42% O2As your mommas…

  • Protected: Is forever enough – is forever enough?

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  • When should we go to war?

    When should we go to war?

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    (This post originally appeared on a couple other blogs where it seems to have been orphaned, posting it here to keep it alive and back dating to post date on those.) When we have to. How will we know we have to? It will be obvious to a majority of our people that we have…

  • Protected: All that I am….and all that I ever was…

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  • Beyond the Uniform guest appearance

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    I was proud to be interviewed on the Beyond the Uniform Podcast with Justin Nassiri discussing career moves and some of the value Military Veterans can offer to Technology Companies. It drew and built on a lot of the work I did on The Art of Product War. Justin has delivered guidance and mentorship through…

  • My UBI Story: Or How I Benefit From An Unconditional(ish) 1k (ish) Per Month

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    This was also posted here. I support Andrew Yang for President in 2020. The Flagship of his policies is the Freedom Dividend in which every American Citizen over the age of 18 will receive $1,000.00 each month unconditionally. This seems surprising to a lot of people I talk with, although the concept has longstanding American…

  • Why Andrew Yang 2020

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    1 in 3 American jobs are likely to be automated out of existence by 2030. Andrew Yang has a plan to deal with it. Why I personally am investing huge amounts of effort in supporting the Yang Campaign: We are facing an economic Tsunami the likes of which we have not seen before. This time…

  • Happy Father’s day

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    Today is fathers day and I want to add my voice to that of many others in gratitude for fathers everywhere. Our species is something special with males engaged not only in procreation but in rearing the young in an involved and enduring way. Our culture is something special in expecting manhood to be earned…

  • Speaking at a conference on Youtube!

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    ….and inspecting what you expect. I was fortunate to get a chance to present about how inspecting what you expect is important both in the military and with APIs at the Nordic APIs Austin API summit. If you’d like to check out the slides or the video of the presentation you can do so. This…

  • Inspect what you Expect!

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    [This post previously appeared on the API Connect Test and Monitor Blog] I was fortunate to get a chance to present about how inspecting what you expect is important both in the military and with APIs at the Nordic APIs Austin API summit. If you’d like to check out the slides or the video of…