richardiporter
Product Manager @ Several: Rownd.io, IBM, Team America Relief
I get out of bed every morning driven by a personal why.
To lead powerful people and manage excellent products by becoming brilliant in the basics.I learn, teach and mentor, so others may survive and thrive. This means I frequently think about leadership, mission, team, incentives, and customers.
I believe in setting the example, accomplishing worthy missions and taking care of our people.
I speak on my own behalf - never my employers. If that ever changes I will explicitly say so IN the communication itself.
More thoughts on it here if interested. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/DGPkBbBN9fGWQMq4u/richardiporter-s-shortform?commentId=J2j3M3RjhpWXtnkES
What lost my interest for 3 years? Seems likely related to something that was different 2023-2026
-Lots of job changes, which, fair, but I could just as easily posted here about the chaos that is DOGE and its terrible impacts as elsewhere.
-Family has continued changing on smooth trajectory since
-Likely replaced need for digital community with a large ecosystem of signal chats.
--Those are encrypted end to end
--They offer immediate stimulation and engagement
--They are more directly work adjacent
--They feel a lot less formal
---They dont feel like a burden to jump in and out of. Logging on here feels like work.
I guess bottom line is.... Hit me up on signal?
@richardiporter.11
https://signal.me/#eu/LThjPa40ZBRT0kJTX-hbHR883WZrY3uoMTN87doO309r1-6rslxI96IIxJE5uggO
it me.
aasimov wrote this first btw
robot domination of humans is a good thing, actually
Cory Doctorow- Author fiction and non and activist on competitive compatibility, fixing the internet, resisting monopoly, influencing through fiction and non https://pluralistic.net/
Daniel Suarez hard sci fi author on ai risk on space risk (Kessler Syndrome) and a counter point on why and how we should colonize space asap vs Will MacAskill concern we should maybe wait for better values first. https://www.daniel-suarez.com/
James Starvidis retired Admiral and author of 2034 on great power war risk and fiction for warning about it. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3813314838
Annalee Newitz author of scatter adapt remember how humans will survive a mass extinction on surviving various x risk https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15798335
Scott Santens on UBI! https://www.scottsantens.com/
Rob Thelen entrepreneur founder of rownd.io ; former IBMer, Googler, USAF combat veteran, on career exploration and pivots and the case for relentless optimism (biased- he’s a good friend of mine and hugely positive influence) https://rownd.io/about-rownd
Rob Reid and Sam Harris did a very scary podcast about this. I am also glad
Thanks Nick!
TL;DR but I appreciate you 🙂
We should use quick posts a lot more. And anyone doing the more typical long posts should ALWAYS do the TLDRS I see many doing. It will help not scare people off. Im new to these forums, joined about a month ago coming in from first hearing Will M on Sam Harris a few times, reading doing good better, listening to lots of 80k hours pods and doing the trial giving what we can pledge, joining EA everywhere slack etc. But I find the vast majority of these forum posts extremely unapproachable. I consider myself a pretty smart guy and I’m pretty into reading books and listening to pods, but I’m still quite put off by the constant wall of words I get delivered by the forum digest (a feature I love!) I have enjoyed a few posts I’ve found and skimmed. It’s just that the main content is usually way too much.