Another Memorial Day is here and it is always a time of reflection for me. I’ve written on it several years the past. Yes, I have friends who died serving in wars with me.Yes, we lost those wars. And now I have friends who served alongside me whose families continue to be at risk from …
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Please give this a listen or watch?
Hi there, could you please do me a favor and listen to this brief 40 minute talk? Or if you prefer video you could watch it? Then tell me what you think?
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
An (attempted) brief update
I havent posted in quite a while which in and of itself makes posting a higher barrier. Some wild things have happened since I last posted (and I will likely post and back-date to when they were more relevant later.) Major things that have happened As you can see, lots is happening and there’s lots …