Richard Ian Porter

Category: Personal

  • The lost cause

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    I enjoyed this so much that I bought the book thrice! Once as an audiobook and ebook in his Kickstarter, then again as a hardcover to have it signed at his talk. And I promise I’m not only posting positively about it because I met the author or because I’m trying to be thanked by…

  • Meet up in Meat Space

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    I’m very busy. Aren’t we all theses days? But this weekend I got a wonderful chance to meet up with a couple of friends as they traveled through m neck of the woods. I’d love to post this reminder to myself and any others who might be interested. 1 Meet up in meat space if…

  • Another memorial day another reflection

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    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…

  • Please give this a listen or watch?

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    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?

  • Womens choice and bodily autonomy

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    I wrote the below email to my state level representatives 21 Mar 2023 – there was never an answer despite 2 additional follow ups. I’ll still share it with you for what its worth. Dear House Minority Leader Reives and Senator Murdock, Thank you for introducing and speaking on behalf of the Codify Roe and…

  • Do good with your career! 80,000 hours

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    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.

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    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.

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    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…

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

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    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

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    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…