Ivan Burduk

Karma: 425

Academic background: BE(Hons) ChemE, BSc Physics, Chemistry.

Career background:

Research science & engineering, product development, project management, quality systems.
Helped build and support the EA community across NZ and Australia on an EAIF Grant (2021-2022), and co-founded the EA Auckland University group in 2015.

Hobbies: Perfumery, bouldering/climbing, fire-dancing, chess and strategy board games

Professional generalist

Let’s meet! https://usemotion.com/meet/ivan-burduk/meeting

Ivan Burduk 11 Sep 2023 16:46 UTC
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on: Ivan Burduk’s Quick takes
Wish Swapcard was better?
Swapcard, the networking and scheduling app for EA Global and EAGx events, has published their product roadmap — where anyone can vote on features they want to see!
Two features currently in the “Researching (Vote)” stage have been requested by our attendees since the beginning of us using Swapcard for our events:

1) Reschedule a meeting
2) External Calendar Synchronization

If these sound like features you want, I encourage you to take a moment to vote for them! Every vote counts.

Swapcard product roadmap

Ivan Burduk 12 Nov 2021 3:02 UTC
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in reply to: Kat Woods’s comment on: Why boring writing is unethical: the case for it being high impact to make EA writing entertaining
As someone with little writing experience, and a plan to write more—I found this post motivating and useful! The “stop trying to be serious and respectable” point hit the nail on the head for me. I don’t have a strong background in writing, and when I do write something I set a high internal bar for what is “serious and useful enough”.
Personally, I don’t see aiming to have engaging writing as an extra hoop. I find it decreases the resistance because I feel like I can write with a more authentic & natural tone. I’m more of a speaker than I am a writer, which I think tends to cause my writing to be overly verbose (as I just write what I would say).
But this post had really useful tips for where I’m at—I’m sure I’ll be referring to this several times in the near future. Thanks Kat!
I think making EA content more entertaining/engaging (or having content that achieves this e.g. submissions to the Creative Writing Contest) is a great way to spread EA ideas. The same goes for YouTube videos and other forms of media. Generally speaking, more entertaining = more engaging = more likely to spread. Not to mention that people are more likely to act when emotionally engaged rather than merely intellectually.

Ivan Burduk 15 Jul 2021 6:27 UTC
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in reply to: Luke Freeman’s comment on: Book Giveaway Impact Analysis (Doing Good Better in NZ)
Thanks Luke! Looking forward to getting some better data after we improve the system. I think it would be a good project for GWWC to implement. Perhaps with the larger scale you might be able to automate a few things (e.g. various follow ups) and get more out of each book.
I’ve just followed up about the cost. Some wires must have got crossed somewhere down the line, as it seems that the cost of book + delivery is actually $20 (so that would make the book itself ~$15). Woops. I’ll update the post with this.

Ivan Burduk 22 Dec 2022 21:49 UTC
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in reply to: TJPHutton’s comment on: EA Global 2023 applications are now open!
Update (22:26 GMT) — This has now been fixed!
Hi Tom, thanks for flagging this!
Sorry that you’re experiencing this issue. We’ve recently migrated to a new system, and trying to keep past application data has been a little tricky — I imagine that’s what’s caused the problem here.
We’re working on a solution right now, and I’ll update here once this is resolved!

Ivan Burduk 11 Sep 2023 18:05 UTC
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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.

Ivan Burduk 16 Nov 2023 18:57 UTC
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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 Burduk 25 Dec 2023 14:54 UTC
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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 Burduk 18 Aug 2023 9:07 UTC
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in reply to: quinn’s comment on: quinn’s Shortform
Hi Quinn,
I’m Ivan and I’m responsible for the systems-side of things on the CEA Events team.
I understand and share your frustration about the confusing User Interface of Swapcard’s “Update your details?” modal. This has been confusing for multiple users in the past, and is something I’ve been pushing Swapcard to improve for a while now (I even sent them an email with a screenshot of the modal we use to do this on the EA Forum — which is magnitudes better)...
If you are referring to data completed via the registration form, I can have this data re-pushed to Swapcard for you so that you don’t have to re-type it (note that you’ll need to select the “Accept new data” option for this to work). The reason this whole thing exists is because of GDPR and so we can’t technically edit user profile data without their consent.
If you encountered the modal after filling out your profile on Swapcard, then please let me know — as this would indicate that the modal is showing at the wrong time, and I can follow up with Swapcard about this.
Hope this helps!

Ivan Burduk 4 Apr 2024 16:22 UTC
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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.

Ivan Burduk 1 Apr 2022 11:36 UTC
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in reply to: Robin’s comment on: Why 80 000 hours should recommend more people become drug lords
FWIW I was linked here from a slack thread, and I didn’t notice the tag.
Also, personally I don’t find it takes away from the humor of it. Nice post, good laugh.

Ivan Burduk 4 Apr 2024 16:31 UTC
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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 Burduk 4 Apr 2024 16:30 UTC
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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 Burduk 4 Apr 2024 16:24 UTC
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in reply to: Abby Hoskin’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 Burduk 7 Mar 2024 11:14 UTC
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in reply to: Sinclair Chen’s comment on: Ivan Burduk’s Quick takes
Do you think it was better?

Ivan Burduk 26 Sep 2023 2:12 UTC
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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 Burduk 24 Sep 2023 13:07 UTC
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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 Burduk 1 Sep 2023 17:17 UTC
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in reply to: Michelle Hauser’s comment on: Should I patent my cultivated meat method?
I don’t know how any of this works, but is it a possibility for you to tell the Tech Transfer office that you will let them file the patent conditionally on it being free-license/non-limiting, otherwise you will publish it open-source? In line with TeddyW’s response — it sounds like licensing with “altruistic clauses” is something that the Tech Transfer office would be opposed to, given that they are for-profit; but maybe you have some leverage because presumably they have some incentive to file for the patent rather than it being fully open-source..?

Ivan Burduk 8 Mar 2023 16:01 UTC
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in reply to: david_reinstein’s comment on: Book Giveaway Impact Analysis (Doing Good Better in NZ)
Thanks, updated!

Ivan Burduk 8 Mar 2023 16:01 UTC
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in reply to: david_reinstein’s comment on: Book Giveaway Impact Analysis (Doing Good Better in NZ)
Sorry I’m not sure what you mean here?

Ivan Burduk 21 Mar 2022 16:18 UTC
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in reply to: martyna’s comment on: EA Global: London 2022
Hi Martyna,
For accommodation, we can suggest the following options:
Hostels
St Christophers Inn
Nightly Rate Estimate: £30.00, dorm shared bathroom
Distance to EAG: 7 minute walk
Hotels
Point A Shoreditch
Nightly Rate Estimate: £108
Distance to EAG: 7 minute walk
The Travelodge, London Central City Road
Nightly Rate Estimate: £59, double bed
Distance to EAG: 6 minute walk
Easy Hotel, Shoreditch
Nightly Rate Estimate: £80 double bed
Distance to EAG: 7 minute walk
(More options here)
You can connect with other attendees via Swapcard (our event networking app ) - and you’ll get more details about this closer to the event.
Otherwise, we encourage attendees to use this exact post to connect with other attendees! The aim is to centralize this kind of coordination and discussion around the forum.

Sidenote: If you are on Discord, there is an #ea-global channel in the EA Corner server. There currently isn’t a central workspace on Slack for this. (Disclaimer: I work for CEA and these are my own views, not CEA’s).