Ivan Burduk

• Ivan BurdukApr 1, 2025, 10:31 AM

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  in reply to: fish_are_friends’s comment on: EA Global Refer­ral Program

  Appreciate the feedback here. Just to add on to what Robert said in the other comment:

  You’re right that a successful referral is worth much more than a sticker or pin! When we were designing the program, we did consider more substantial rewards. But we also wanted to be careful not to incentivize gaming the system (which gets trickier the more valuable the reward), and make sure the program stayed focused on community-building rather than making it transactional.

  That said, I’ve also noticed that people genuinely enjoy the small, fun merch/​swag at EAG/​x events—stickers, shirts, hoodies with EA-y designs, etc. And because the referral rewards will be unique, they might act as conversation starters or visible signals that quietly prompt others to refer as well.

  It’s also worth noting, as mentioned in the post, that many people were already referring friends informally—this program just offers a small way to recognize and appreciate that effort! We’re hoping it serves more as a light prompt or nudge than a financial incentive.

  Really appreciate you raising this, though—it’s helpful feedback, and we’ll keep it in mind as we move forward.

EA Global Refer­ral Program

An­nounc­ing EA Global: NYC 2025

• Ivan BurdukFeb 23, 2025, 12:12 AM

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  in reply to: Yonatan Cale’s comment on: Ivan Bur­duk’s Quick takes

  Mine weirdly only shows on my mobile and not on my PC. Something to do with it being on a different calendar. Maybe that’s what’s happening for you?

• Ivan BurdukFeb 20, 2025, 6:41 PM

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  in reply to: Isaac Dunn’s comment on: Ivan Bur­duk’s Quick takes

  Ah interesting, good to know! What kind of bugs have you encountered? I did some basic tests and it seemed to work smoothly for me.

• Ivan BurdukFeb 20, 2025, 5:20 AM

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  on: Ivan Bur­duk’s Quick takes

  Long-awaited Swapcard feature releases!

  The moment we have all been waiting for (and that I’ve been pushing on for coming up to two years) is finally here!

  You can now:

  1. Sync your event agenda with Google Calendar

  2. Reschedule meetings from your mobile

  Note: Calendar syncing needs to be enabled on the Web version of Swapcard.

• Ivan BurdukSep 23, 2024, 11:44 AM

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  on: Vi­pas­sana and Effec­tive Altru­ism: How med­i­ta­tion em­pow­ered me as an activist

  Thanks for writing this! Well written :)

  I recently attended my third course and I echo the idea that Vipassana has made me a better activist (as well partner, friend, son, colleague, etc).

  I like your recommendation to implement this at an organizational level. While it might not be practical for all orgs, I think it’s a neat idea to incentivize attendance (with the understanding that Vipassana might not be for everyone — though neither is a Project Management online course).

  I also think the EA community is overrepresented on having attended at least one Vipassana course, compared to the general population; but that’s just a guess/​speculation.

• Ivan BurdukAug 20, 2024, 3:07 PM

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  on: A Case for Nuanced Risk Assessment

  Hey Molly,
  
  Thanks for the post!
  Definitely agree that it would be valuable to explicate our models of the world, especially numerically!
  
  Heads up that you have a repeat paragraph immediately after the probability graph for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

  “When we’re estimating the risk of an extinction-causing asteroid impact...”

• Ivan BurdukApr 4, 2024, 4:31 PM

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  in reply to: Rafael Ruiz’s comment on: EA Global: we’re im­prov­ing 1-on-1s

  For now, the standard 12 signs is the easiest to implement. However, we will follow up with an Ophiuchus update in due course!

• Ivan BurdukApr 4, 2024, 4:30 PM

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  in reply to: Dušan D. Nešić (Dushan)’s comment on: EA Global: we’re im­prov­ing 1-on-1s

  The implementation of Feng-Shui for venue spaces was considered to be out of budget; though this is something we will be keeping in mind for future conferences. We are still evaluating Numerology for effectiveness, though preliminary results suggest that the recursive reduction sum of your birth-date may be predictive of compatibility with others e.g. 11/​11/​1999 DD/​MM/​YYYY = 5+9+9+9 = 32 (3+2) = 5. Numbers closer to you (imagine 1–9 in a circle) may be more likely to be compatible.

• Ivan BurdukApr 4, 2024, 4:24 PM

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  in reply to: Abby Babby’s comment on: EA Global: we’re im­prov­ing 1-on-1s

  It’s been a long haul, but we’ve finally convinced their CEO (a Pisces), that redeveloping their core architecture to support star-sign matching would be a good business decision.

• Ivan BurdukApr 4, 2024, 4:22 PM

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  in reply to: Sanjay’s comment on: EA Global: we’re im­prov­ing 1-on-1s

  While our star signs may be relevant for optimizing 1-1 matches (sorry, we’re not compatible), we don’t have evidence to suggest there’s any influence of star signs on the ability to evaluate the use of star signs to optimize 1-1 matches. We therefore recommend against using the lack of knowledge of our star signs as a reason to not believe our claims.

[April fool’s] EA Global: we’re im­prov­ing 1-on-1s

• Ivan BurdukMar 7, 2024, 11:14 AM

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  in reply to: Sinclair Chen’s comment on: Ivan Bur­duk’s Quick takes

  Do you think it was better?

Re­view of EA Global Bay Area 2024 (Global Catas­trophic Risks)

• Ivan BurdukDec 25, 2023, 2:54 PM

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  in reply to: calebp’s comment on: Joseph Lemien’s Shortform

  Hi Caleb,

  Ivan from the EAG team here — I’m responsible for a bunch of the systems we use at our events (including Swapcard).

  Thanks for flagging this! It’s useful to hear that this could do with more clarity. Unfortunately, there isn’t a way we can add help text or sub text to the Swapcard fields due to Swapcard limitations. However, we could rename the labels/​field names to make this clearer..?

  For example

  • Areas of Expertise (3+ months work experience)

  • Areas of Interest (actively seeking to learn more)

  Does that sound like something that would be helpful for you to know what to put down? I’ll take this to the EAG team and see if we can come up with something better. Let me know if you have other suggestions!

• Ivan BurdukNov 16, 2023, 6:57 PM

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  in reply to: Guy Raveh’s comment on: Larks’s Shortform

  This piqued my curiosity, so I looked into it — it seems that there’s a pretty equal split between pre-conference meetings scheduled (2449) and during-conference meetings scheduled (2039), with meeting confirmation frequency peaking on the Friday of the event. This is just EA Global: Boston 2023 data and I haven’t looked at the others — but it does indicate to me that we don’t want to set up systems that favour one type of user and disadvantaging another.

  

• Ivan BurdukSep 26, 2023, 2:12 AM

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  in reply to: Bella’s comment on: Ivan Bur­duk’s Quick takes

  Yeah this is a big one, and I have actually been pushing for this feature since January. Unfortunately, Swapcard don’t see this as important enough to prioritize it. The last I heard, this was added to the Q3 roadmap, but knowing the timelines I don’t expect this to be done any time soon (though I am following up about it!).

• Ivan BurdukSep 24, 2023, 1:07 PM

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  in reply to: Sinclair Chen’s comment on: Ivan Bur­duk’s Quick takes

  Good luck! I’d be keen to hear how it goes for you!

• Ivan BurdukSep 11, 2023, 6:05 PM

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  in reply to: Kirsten’s comment on: Ivan Bur­duk’s Quick takes

  I guess I can see it being intentionally used a mechanism to prevent people from fabricating votes, but given the difficulty of doing that relative to Swapcard’s popularity as a service — this level of resistance seems unnecessary.