A unit vector in the direction of Lauren

I've written several posts over at Effectivism recently about Occupy Wall Street: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

Let me know if there's any other aspect(s) you think I should be covering, or anything I missed!

I've been posting to Effectivism again lately. Recent posts:

• How to buy a greener book - the environmental impact of shopping at a local bookstore or online; Amazon Prime and other express delivery; Kindles and e-readers.
  
• Staying off mailing lists: anonymous online donations - how to stop getting bombarded with dead trees following every contribution.
  
• Crowdsourcing for a cause - a number of innovative ways that you - and everyone - can get involved in volunteering, funding causes you care about, and helping with disaster relief.
  
• Buying local food vs. eating less meat - it's not an either/or proposition, but what are the relative environmental impacts?
  
• Garbage disposals vs. garbage bins - when composting isn't an option, what's the best way to dispose of your food waste?
  

I'd like to talk to a few product managers for tech companies. Does anyone know any that they could put me in touch with? Thanks!

Edit: info about why I am asking in the comments. :)

For a number of reasons, some business-related and some personal, the members of HeadLamp Research have decided not to continue pursuing our goals as a company right now. While I wish we could have achieved even more, I am very proud of our accomplishments so far. I also feel like moving on is the right decision given the circumstances, and I'm looking forward to what comes next.

I am hopeful that perhaps we can get some grad student(s) or other folks interested in helping to add to and maintain the tools we built for future use. It would feel really rewarding if I could have contributed a useful tool to academic and medical researchers in particular, as was my original goal. But there are some obstacles along the path, and we'll have to see what makes sense. Whether or not we manage to get someone to continue where we left off, we did accomplish a fantastic amount -- all of our stated goals and more -- during the NSF grant period, and I'm amazed at all we've learned and done. I also feel really great about my own role in the company and the experience I gained.

At the moment, I'm starting the search for other jobs. I'm looking for positions in the Bay Area, primarily in either product management or applied research. I'm interested in jobs that help directly shape products or answer questions about directions that products should go in. My specific background and interests are largely in crowdsourcing/surveys/online research methods, and/or psychology and language (language learning, semantics). I've so far been looking at job listings at a bunch of the local tech industry giants, but also a few research institutes and larger startups. If you have suggestions for positions that might be a good fit for me, I'd love to hear them.

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That first experience in Adelaide, and my other final Australian adventures, coming soon!

vito_excalibur made that observation while passing on the following:

Feral camels are coming to eat your air conditioner.

Before I went to Australia, I thought every living thing in Australia was deadly. In Australia, I learned that this was a drastic oversimplification. I now believe that everything is deadly, terrifyingly painful, massive, and/or very weird.

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After three days and two nights in Sydney, B. and I hopped on a plane to Cairns, which is three hours away, in Queensland (the tropical northeastern part of Australia). More adventures soon followed, about which I shall report herein soon.