Richard Ian Porter

Category: Personal

  • Interpersonal Violence and Statistics

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    Its strange how the relationship we have with death caused by interpersonal violence is so different from deaths caused other ways – I think it has to do with a feeling helplessness. If there is something we care about, we have to refuse to give in to helplessness, we have to dare mightily and refuse…

  • Love value, value love

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    I’m a Product Manager, I’m also a father, a husband and a Marine and all of these inform my perspective on love. Don’t love your plan, your product, don’t love your company, don’t even love your problem. Love your people. We need to unabashedly bring love back into our lives. Ive been reminded of this…

  • Gratitude (Professional)

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    As March begins I wanted to take a few minutes to reflect on professional gratitude. I’ve been quite open about my gratitude personally. There’s an intersection there, a year ago my baby daughter Winter was in the NICU (Many of these posts are protected due to sensitivity if you’re a friend just ask me for…

  • Thankful

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    I’m back from being thankful with the family (just the 4 of us – no super-spreading here) at the NC coast – and thankful we got the chance to unplug and just be with all my little mermaids (3rd pic shows 4 years of family tradition: beach for thanksgiving) You may end up seeing the little…

  • Veterans Day: Don’t thank us, join us

    Veterans Day: Don’t thank us, join us

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    On this Veterans’ Day, like on previous, I call on you, my fellow citizen, not to thank us Veterans. I call on you to join us. Serve your nation and your fellow citizens, help protect and safeguard them. We are at war with a deadly Pandemic. It is killing more Americans per day than any…

  • It continues

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    I’m supposed to say everything is fine. But it’s not. There’s a global pandemic, over 200k Americans have died in an event a majority of developed nations controlled. We head towards an election as a divided nation, a would be autocrat, confirmed kleptocrat remains as president. All indications are he and his party intend to…

  • Be Equal

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    I recently completed the Be Equal training as a part of my continuous learning at IBM. Part of it suggested that I record a knowledge-sharing session with my team on what I learned from the training, but I think I’d rather make it fully public, for the sake of broadest transparency. Because I think the…

  • Grow Powerful People

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    I’ve settled on a more concise way to say it. It’s not that the way I had been articulating my mission is wrong. It’s more that it was longer than it needed to be and more of a how than a why. My why is to grow powerful people. My how is by learning and…

  • “For the mountains are calling and [we] must go.”

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    When Covid-19 struck, and after we had our dear baby home and safe from the NICU, my wife and I were very disappointed we couldn’t make our usual July 4th visit to the Boulder Colorado area where I grew up. We love to show our kiddo the fun to be had in the mountains, hiking…

  • To chase the light

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    I’m back at work now. Our family is finding ways to juggle between the responsibilities of earning money and provide childcare and educate and entertain our kiddos. I wont lie and say its picture perfect (but of course I used the perfect pictures as the photos here). Our Disney-plus subscription is getting a real workout.…