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### **Being helpful**

I enjoy communicating my work and talking with individuals who want to learn more about computer science research and academia. As someone who pivoted from industry to academia, I'm particularly sympathetic to the difficulties in such a transition; so especially if you're in industry and trying to enter academia, please don't hesitate to reach out.
I enjoy communicating my work and talking with individuals who want to learn more about computer science research and academia. As someone who pivoted from industry to academia, I'm particularly sympathetic to the difficulties in such a transition; so especially if you're in industry and trying to enter academia, please don't hesitate to reach out. I also help Ukrainian students applying to universities here through a very well-run organization: [MentorUkraine](https://mentorukraine.bravegeneration.org).

I maintain:
* [This google sheet of Academic Privacy researchers in North America](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-M6Tv94S9Oa07D3ehzVkeRIAsktuIpC4hDO7gGf1ous/edit?gid=0#gid=0)
* [This Resource List for Working in Public-Interest Technology](https://royrinberg.medium.com/resources-for-working-in-public-interest-technology-78a74e7fd712)


### **My current technical thoughts revolve around:**
### **My current thoughts revolve around:**

1. Tools and frameworks for making private computation possible (particularly in a machine-learning systems environment).
2. Laws (primarily US laws) that incentivize technical forms of privacy for developers and disincentivize privacy leaks by companies.

### **The rest of my thoughts mostly revolve around:**

1. The intersection of technology and tech-policy. In particular: how can we make better ways for people to "hedge" in the tech industry. Or in other words, how can people (like me) do something *good* for the world, while also building general [career capital](https://technicallyprivate.substack.com/p/we-need-better-hedgeshtml).
2. ~~Climbing.~~ ~~Triathloning!~~ ~~Climbing again!~~ Triathloning (I never doubted you)
3. The intersection of technology and tech-policy. In particular: how can we make better ways for people to "hedge" in the tech industry. Or in other words, how can people (like me) do something *good* for the world, while also building general [career capital](https://technicallyprivate.substack.com/p/we-need-better-hedgeshtml).
4. ~~Climbing.~~ ~~Triathloning!~~ ~~Climbing again!~~ Triathloning (I never doubted you)

### **Communities I am/have-been a part of**

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2. Reading (or honestly, listening to audiobooks).
3. I'd like to write more, so... [writing](https://technicallyprivate.substack.com/)!
4. [Drone Photography](https://royrinberg.com/Hobbies/)
5. Triathloning
6. ~~Climbing~~
7. ~~Frisbee~~
5. ~~Frisbee~~ ~~Climbing~~ Triathloning
8. Collecting a [list of how organizations advertise privacy](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wArCxGAAvkJcy0inWeKua3Ra7LkJDhApcso8cJ1Aon8/edit#slide=id.g1223166de6e_0_7) (if you have more, please send them to me!)


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