Podcast appearances and mentions of ben clifford

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2024 57:18

Ben Clifford is back with a new electoral strategy that works either side of the Atlantic Ocean. It's The Fine Ale Countdown! Neil Fitzpatrick is working on a Marxist critique of this podcast. Thanks to Sentinel Audio for giving us a home.

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Converting old offices into housing

Today with Claire Byrne

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2024 14:35

John Dobbin, Architect with Shay Cleary Architects, Shay Lally, Quantity Surveyor and Ben Clifford, Professor of Spatial Planning, University College London.

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EA - Rebooting Tyve, an effective giving startup by Raoul

The Nonlinear Library

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2023 17:12

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Rebooting Tyve, an effective giving startup, published by Raoul on April 4, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. In January this year, I took over running Tyve, a start-up that promotes workplace giving. Through Tyve, employees set up recurring monthly donations to charity. The donations are simple to administer. And they come straight from their pre-tax earnings. So they save the average employee hundreds of pounds a year. Ben Clifford (@Clifford), Ben Olsen and Sam Geals in 2019 founded Tyve in 2019. After strong initial growth, Tyve they put Tyve into ‘maintenance mode' in late 2021. Ben Clifford talks about these initial years in Lessons learned from Tyve, an effective giving startup. In this post, I'm going to cover: why I got involved in Tyve; why I believe Tyve could raise large sums for effective charities; what we're doing differently this time around; and how you could help (if you were so inclined). TL;DR If you don't want to read the whole thing, here's a short summary. Only a fraction of adults in the UK who give to charity do it through the workplace (many more do in the US). Workplace giving seems a relatively undertapped channel. When Tyve launches at companies it gets high participation rates and is very sticky (high retention rates). Most donations are “new money” that would not otherwise have been donated to charity. This is especially true for the ~40% of donations that go to Tyve's recommended (effective) charities. We're making changes to make Tyve more attractive to companies to adopt. These include: making it free to use, adding impact reporting and testing donation matching for recommended (effective) charities. There are several (known) reasons why we may fail to get more companies using Tyve. These include charitable giving been seen as a ‘nice to have' and there being a high hurdle for companies to do anything new. There's an easy (and high EV) way you could help: introduce us to the company you work at! How I got involved I've spent most of the last decade leading product and design teams at tech scale ups. Late last year, the most recent of these scale-ups went (the bad ‘boom', not the good one, like at the end of a fist bump). I took it as a opportunity to look beyond the commercial tech world. I'd spent years with the next startup funding round as a key factor behind almost every decision. I was ready for something a bit different. I started to speak to some people in the EA community, talking through options, understanding where they saw the most potential impact. In parallel, I was wondering why smaller companies weren't offering ‘payroll giving' to their employees. (This is the mechanism that enables employees to give to charity from pre-tax earnings.) At this point, I'd been giving a % of income to effective charities for several years. It felt meaningful and important. But it also required a fair bit of admin. I had a spreadsheet for tracking what I'd earned and logging donations (across multiple charities). And then trying to work out what this meant from a tax perspective (after accounting for GiftAid). I'd had access to payroll giving a decade ago when I'd worked at a massive company and it had made giving so simple. No need to track earnings and donations—and the tax benefits were automatic. With modern tech we must be able to make this available to all companies, even those without huge HR teams? Meeting Ben Clifford was serendipitous. Ben had already founded Tyve. Working with Ben O and Sam, he'd built pretty much the exact the product that I'd started sketching out in my mind (and in my terrible handwritten notes). I sat down with Ben in a bakery in what looked like an abandoned parking lot (his idea). After about 15 minutes, he asked me if I wanted to take over Tyve. Even better, him and Ben O were able to continue to he...

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Son of Chicken Qabalah with Lon Milo DuQuette (rebroadcast)

The Hermetic Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2023 71:00

On Thursday November 15th 2018, the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will review "Son of Chicken Qabalah" and interview its distinguished author Lon Milo DuQuette. This 2018 book is a sequel to Lon's popular "Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford" (2001). Lamed Ben Clifford is Lon's fictional creation. Lon thought all of us Hermetic Qabalists needed our own Rabbi, who would not sneer at our Tarot cards and pagan correspondences on the Tree of Life. Ben Clifford's Qabalah was for all of us and it was presented in a humorous style that made the otherwise dry subject come alive. It became one of the best introductions to the subject at least from a Hermetic perspective. The fictional Ben Clifford has passed away but he has left a legacy: a three degree Qabalistic initiation system based on the Sepher Yetzirah's Cube of Space and the Golden Dawn's Hermetic Hebrew alphabet correspondences. Starting with the Three Mother Letters in the first degree (the original tetragrammaton) the candidate next internalizes the Seven Double Letters attributed to the planets, and finally, in the Third and last degree, he or she, installs the Twelve Simple letters internalizing the entire Hermetic Qabalistic universe. This is all accomplished with mudras, flashing colorsm a pitch pipe and geometric mandalas. What we did with a yoga system in "Hermetic Yoga, Beyond the Middle Pillar" (2015) Lon has done in a Temple initiation format. This little book of his is a treasure and will make Hermetic Magick come alive for everyone who conscientiously studies it.

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Episode 129 - Old Wives Tales

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2022 48:54

This week on the pod, we're finally listening to those kooky old wives. How do you get the devil out of the bread? Is the itch in your hand a ringworm or are you about to become minted? The wives let us know in this pod full of jam-packed wisdom. Huge thanks to Ben Clifford for the research on this pod. If you like DnD check out his show Homebrew Quest over on Youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/c/HomebrewQuest ) Also, you like this pod and would like to become a member of the Tony Cantwell community you can do so over on patreon.com/tonycantwellYou'll also gain access to: * Weekly Bonus podcast every Friday. * Unlocked all episodes of the Bonus Cantwell Shitshow. * Priority access for all upcoming gigs and merch* Access to the Shitshow Discord server.

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Episode 126 - The Sun

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2022 46:46

The week on the pod, we're talking the Summer solstice baybay! Traditions through the ages, across the world, and what YOU can do to be a badass neopagan like myself.Huge thanks to associate producer of the pod Ben Clifford for his incredible research. And to the sponsor of the pod, The Dubliner Irish Whiskey check them out in-store at Dunnes or on theDLD.com. Also if you dig this pod, and would like more of it, OR just wanna say thanks; over on Patreon.com/tonycantwell there are over 100 podcasts that you haven't heard yet, I do a new bonus pod every Friday there, as well as offer early access to upcoming gigs. There's no commitment to support forever, it's just a 5er a month and you can unsubscribe whenever. Now enjoy that extra daylight!

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Episode 108 - St. Brigit and the New Bank Holiday

The Nonlinear Library: EA Forum Top Posts

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2022 49:34

This week on the pod I'm taking a light paddle of a dive into our Brigit, God and Saint and hope to shine a light on why our new bank holiday completes the pagan quadrant of holidays. Happy Imbolc! This pod is sponsored by The Dubliner Irish Whiskey, check out their website the DLD.com to grab yourself some tasty ass whiskey. Big thanks to Ben Clifford, associate producer and researcher to the stars for compiling a wad of info. If DnD is your bag, he's one hell of a DM, so heck out his weekly stream Homebrew Quest on Youtube. If that's your bag!

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What we learned from a year incubating longtermist entrepreneurship by Rebecca Kagan, Jade Leung, imben

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2021 30:06

welcome to the nonlinear library, where we use text-to-speech software to convert the best writing from the rationalist and ea communities into audio. this is: What we learned from a year incubating longtermist entrepreneurship, published by Rebecca Kagan, Jade Leung, imben on the effective altruism forum. This post is a retrospective on the Longtermist Entrepreneurship (LE) Project, which ran for a year and explored ways to incubate new longtermist entrepreneurship. If you're in a hurry, we recommend reading key lessons learned, what we'd be excited about, and what it takes to work in this space. Thanks to Markus Anderljung, Aaron Gertler, Sam Hilton, Josh Jacobson and Jonas Vollmer for reviewing, as well as many others who reviewed an earlier draft of the document. All opinions and mistakes are our own. Intro The Longtermist Entrepreneurship (LE) Project ran from April 2020 through May 2021, with the aim of testing ways to support the creation of new longtermist nonprofits, companies, and projects. During that time, we did market sizing, user interviews, and ran three pilot programs on how to support longtermism entrepreneurship, including a fellowship. The LE Project was run by Jade Leung, Ben Clifford, and Rebecca Kagan, and funded by Open Philanthropy. The project shut down after a year because of staffing reasons, but also because of some uncertainty about the project's direction and value. We never had a public internet presence, so this may be the first time that many people on the EA Forum are hearing about our work. This post describes the history of the project, our pilot programs, and our lessons learned. It also describes what we'd support seeing in the future, and what our concerns are about this space, and ways to learn more. Overall, we think that supporting longtermist entrepreneurship is important and promising work, and we expect people will continue to work in this space in the coming years. However, we aren't publishing this post because we want to encourage lots of people to start longtermist incubators. We think doing longtermist startup incubation is incredibly difficult, and requires specific backgrounds. We wanted to share what we've transparently and widely to help people learn from our successes and mistakes, and to think carefully about what future efforts should be made in this direction. If you're considering starting an LE incubator[1], we'd love to hear about it so we can offer advice and coordination with others interested in working in this space. Please fill out this google form if you're interested in founding programs in LE incubation. Key lessons learned: Overall, it's likely that one or multiple organizations should be doing LE incubation. We need more longtermist organizations, and the current ecosystem doesn't seem poised to fix this problem. Our fellowship and matchmaking pilots were promising, suggesting that there's more we can do to start new organizations. There's interest in LE programs, but a limited talent pool that has strong backgrounds in both longtermism and entrepreneurship. Talent is likely to be a significant bottleneck. Hundreds of people expressed interest in doing LE, but a very small number of these (1-3 dozen) had backgrounds in both longtermism and entrepreneurship. There were few people that we thought could pull off very ambitious projects. The idea pool is more limited and less developed than we expected. There are existing lists of ideas, but almost no ideas are fleshed out and have broad support. There are no clear “highest priority ideas'' that are obviously good to pursue and have been carefully vetted. Instead, most people we spoke to thought that the most promising ideas depended on the available talent. We found almost no longtermist ideas for traditional startup-minded people to pursue. Funders are worried about downside risks of some new projects, but often more open to funding short-runway projects with frequent checkpoints. Funders do want to see m...

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Episode 96 - Samhain

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2021 45:34

This week on the pod, I'm chatting Samhain and how the movie Coco inspired me to become a better pagan. Why so much death? Do spirits love apples? Why chicken balls outside your door? All of these and more explained and then some, on today's spooky autumnal episode.At the end of the episode, I teased tickets to my upcoming Vicar Street show PONY. Tickets are on general release this Friday but Patreon subscribers have first access on Wednesday so if you wanna get in on that action early and get 70 extra podcasts, bop over here: https://www.patreon.com/tonycantwell and sign up.Huge thanks to Ben Clifford, for all the research. His D&D show Homebrew Quest is available here: https://www.youtube.com/c/homebrewquestAnd of course, the sponsor of this weeks episode, The Dubliner Irish Whiskey. Go over to the https://thedld.com/ grab yourself some whiskey and make a Slimer Ectogasm cocktail, as per instructions in the show.

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Episode 81 - What Women Want

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2021 38:52

This week on the pod, another deep dive into some bad online relationship advice, as I tell you what women (and people who find men attractive) REALLY want reading the top 30 things that men do that women find sexy. Special thanks to Ben Clifford for the research and to the sponsor of the podcast The Dubliner Irish Whiskey (@DublinerWhiskey) check out their new Smoked Stout Beer Cask Edition on thedld.com. And hey, consider becoming a supporter over on patreon.com/tonycantwell You'll also gain access to: * Weekly Bonus podcast every Friday. * Unlocked all episodes of the Bonus Cantwell Shitshow. * Priority access for all upcoming gigs and merch* Access to the Shitshow Discord server.

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Ep. 267: Pacific Rim

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2021 62:48

Ben Clifford is back to discuss the new bathroom trend that's being embraced by all big city sophisticates. It's the Fine Ale Countdown! Neil Fitzpatrick forgets to open the lid first sometimes. Thanks to Sentinel Audio for giving us a home.

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Ep. 250: Edinburgh Cringe

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2020 70:09

Ben Clifford is back this week. Ben's fans have been calling for his return, so this should make them both very happy. Neil Fitzpatrick is currently updating his terms of service. Thanks to Sentinel Audio for giving us a home.

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Ep. 242: Insane in the Left Lane

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2020 53:04

On the latest Fine Ale Countdown, we are joined by a man who gets half of his recommended intake of fibre, semi-regular guest Ben Clifford. Thanks to Neil Fitzpatrick for the music and to Sentinel Audio for giving us a home.

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Planning Special: Levelling Up Or Concreting Over?

Bloomberg Westminster

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2020 24:25

The prime minister has promised to "build, build, build" his way out of the country's economic slump, announcing a radical overhaul of Britain's planning laws which Number 10 says will spur house-building by cutting red tape. But will it work? Dr Ben Clifford, associate professor at the Bartlett School of Planning at UCL, tells Bloomberg Westminster's Roger Hearing and Sebastian Salek why he's not convinced. And can this government do what many before it have failed to do, and solve the housing crisis? Chris Wood, assistant director of research, policy and public affairs at Shelter, joins to discuss.

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Ep. 239: The Biggest

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2020 71:51

On the latest Fine Ale Countdown, we are Joined by semi-recurring guest Ben Clifford. We discuss Sligo Town, Mrs. Brown, and the usual beer review let down. Thanks to Neil Fitzpatrick for the music, and to Sentinel Audio for giving us a home.

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Ep. 208: Fizzy Burp Water

Impact Hustlers - Entrepreneurs With Social Impact

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2020 56:20

We are joined this week by Special Guest, Ben Clifford. To round out dry January, we review not one, but two non-alcoholic beers.Thanks to Neil Fitzpatrick for the music, and to Sentinel Audio for giving us a home.

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57: Ben Clifford of Tyve - Impact Giving For Employees

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2019 33:07

Ben Clifford is the CEO and founder of Tyve a software platform that empowers your employees to give tax-free through their paycheck to causes they care about. Highlight: Studying moral philosophy and Peter Singer's Famine, Affluence and Morality 30% of US giving is done through payroll giving vs 2% in the UK What is effective altrusim Giving what we can with a 10% pledge Making giving the social norm You can't fake the stat on employee giving Platform for everyone to give through their lense Why focus on growing number of users will scale impact giving Time Stamp: [01:10] How does Tyve works? [05:30] How Tyve started [10:00] What would my next £3000 do? Seeing the data. [17:00] Business model of Tyve [23:00] Targeting chief people officer of organisations [25:00] When giving becomes part of your identity [26:00]How Tyve works? [29:00] How does the world look like if Tyve succeeds Useful links: Tyve (https://www.tyve.org/) Peter Singer's Famine, Affluence and Morality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine,_Affluence,_and_Morality) Go to ImpactHustlers.com (https://www.impacthustlers.com/) Visit FastForward 2030 (http://fastforward2030.com/) and Real Changers (https://www.realchangers.com/) Impact Hustlers is hosted by Maiko Schaffrath, connect on Linkedin (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/maikoschaffrath/en) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/maikoschaffrath) This podcast is produced by Woon Tan of Podcast Publishing (http://podcastpublishing.help/)

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Ep. 194: Prize Bonds

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2019 51:44

On this week's Fine Ale Countdown we are joined once again by Ben Clifford to talk about how to spend our SSIA. Thanks to Neil Fitzpatrick for the music, and to Sentinel Audio for giving us a home.

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Ep. 193: The Tongan Haka

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 51:02

This week on the Fine Ale Countdown, we are joined by very special guest Ben Clifford. Ben answers questions about advertising that you didn't know required asking. Thanks to Neil Fitzpatrick for the music, and to Sentinel Audio for giving us a home.

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Son of Chicken Qabalah with Lon Milo DuQuette

The Hermetic Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2018 71:00

On Thursday November 15th 2018, the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will review "Son of Chicken Qabalah" and interview its distinguished author Lon Milo DuQuette. This 2018 book is a sequel to Lon's popular "Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford" (2001). Lamed Ben Clifford is Lon's fictional creation. Lon thought all of us Hermetic Qabalists needed our own Rabbi, who would not sneer at our Tarot cards and pagan corospondences on the Tree of Life. Ben Clifford's Qabalah was for all of us and it was presented in a humorous style that made the otherwise dry subject come alive. It became one of the best introductions to the subject at least from a Hermetic perspective. The fictional Ben Clifford has passed away but he has left a legacy: a three degree Qabalistic initiation system based on the Sepher Yetzirah's Cube of Space and the Golden Dawn's Hermetic Hebrew alphabet corospondences. Starting with the Three Mother Letters in the first degree (the original tetragrammaton) the candidate next internalizes the Seven Double Letters attributed to the planets, and finally, in the Third and last degree, he or she, installs the Twelve Simple letters internalizing the entire Hermetic Qabalistic universe. This is all accomplished with mudras, flashing colors a pitch pipe and geometric mandalas. What we did with a yoga system in "Hermetic Yoga, Beyond the Middle Pillar" (2015) Lon has done in a Temple initiation format. This little book of his is a treasure and will make Hermetic Magick come alive for everyone who conscientiously studies it.

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7: Tuatha Dé Danann w/ Ben Clifford

Forty Minute Feuds

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2018 46:29

After a brief sojourn, Forty Minute Feuds is back, with an episode about the legendary Tuatha Dé Danann. Things mentioned in this episode: [Tuatha de Dannan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatha_de_Danann_(band)) (Brazilian metal band) [De Dannan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Dannan) (Irish folk band) [Further reading on Tuatha de Dannan](http://www.transceltic.com/pan-celtic/tuatha-de-danann) And follow guest Ben Clifford on Twitter [here](https://twitter.com/Benjour) and Instagram [here](https://www.instagram.com/benjourmesamis/)!

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16 – Spaceship Off Earth

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2018 24:56

Break A Wish is a podcast where all your dreams come true but with terrible ironic consequences. On each episode, host Maddox Campbell sits down with two guests and one magic wish. The panel breaks down the wish from every angle while trying to come up with the perfect ironic cost. In this episode, we are joined by Joanna Haughton and Ben Clifford to discuss the wish, “I wish I had a spaceship to leave this planet.” The discussion that follows bad Skype calls, moody space-teens, and if aliens would find me sexy. Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

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16 - Spaceship Off Earth

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2018 24:55

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08 – Superpower Starter Kit

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2018 25:10

Break A Wish is a podcast where all your dreams come true but with terrible ironic consequences. On each episode, host Maddox Campbell sits down with two guests and one magic wish. The panel breaks down the wish from every angle while trying to come up with the perfect ironic cost. Our goal is a come up with a cost that will make it a gut wrenching hard choice whether you would accept this wish knowing its cost. Then we ask our panelists and our audience if they would. More info breakawish.ca In this episode, we are joined by Joanna Haughton and Ben Clifford to discuss a wish asking for “Super strength and flight” The discussion that follows gets dirty almost immediately thanks to Jo and we learn that with great power c*ms great responsibility. Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

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08 - Superpower Starter Kit

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2018 25:09

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03 - High School Again