The Question of the day is:
Early Years
- Born in Buffalo, NY
- Normal-ish childhood.
- Didn't like elementary school much:
- I'm probably a tad autistic. People can be assholes.
- Unregulated, underfunded, well intentioned but still fucking useless catholic elementary school (St. Mary Of the Lake in Hamburg, NY) had nothing useful to offer me-- they didn't even manage to beat into me that it was easier to conform to mediocrity.
- Didn't take kindly to students choosing not to be religous, etc...
- Boating
- Swimming
- Allegheny State Park
- Lots of time at various relatives houses
- Failing at a number of sports and such:
- Ballet
- Soccer
- Baseball
- Reading a ton
- Wing Commander I, II, III, IV, Privateer
- Didn't like elementary school much:
Fledgling Technopreneur
- Started working at 12
- Paper route
- building & selling & repairing & networking computers a year later.
- Had a micro-CRM-consultancy by the time I headed to college
- focused on tech in High School, but they didn't teach that, so mostly I focused on business/work
- Somehow did alright in High School anyway
"Higher" Education
- Moved to Chicago to attend Loyola University Chicago (If there are any Jesuits reading this, I'm eternally grateful to your order for footing the bill for my schooling.)
- History as a major was pretty flexible so I did like this:
- Sophomore Year - Rome, Italy (LUC Rome Center)
- Junior Year - Accra, Ghana (University of Ghana)
While in Ghana, one day I was sitting on the porch in my dorm (the ISH, if you know the Legon campus at all-- the top-left room if you're facing the front of the building) and I think I'd recently read an economist article about the effects of mobile telephones on poverty. If you didn't know, they more or less eliminate extreme poverty within a few months. I started to ponder networks, in a serious way, and before I quite realized, I'd created a connectivity concept that I'm still chasing. This wasn't really "my vision" per se-- I'm aware of literally hundreds like me, working for universal, free (beer) Free (speech) networks. So, I guess you could say I started working on this in late 2004/early 2005.... but I took a few detours. - Summer 2005 - Planned to drop out of school and pursue a startup using 802.11b wireless to make a mesh network in Accra. It went very poorly, and I pretty much know why: The tech wasn't nearly ready. We're still working on it today, in fact. Anyway, Loyola, being the good sports that they were, let me finish school with my scholarship intact.
- December 2005 - Graduated from College!
- History as a major was pretty flexible so I did like this:
The United States
As you have probably figured out I don't live in the states. The most profound thought I have on my home country is in fact that if we'd spent just 75% of the money that we've spent blowing shit up on fixing stuff and developing new technology, I might not regard it as more or less hopeless.
In the next post (~24 Hours From Now), I'm going to go over my projects and current work. This was just sort of background, and maybe a template for others to use.
Web Profiles
| technology | Profile URL | Handle |
|---|---|---|
| https://reddit.com/u/faddat | faddat | |
| https://twitter.com/jacobgadikian |  | |
| https://facebook.com/jacob.gadikian | N/A or "Jacob Gadikian" | |
| ring | https://ring.cx | ring:4c5472060fe449cbd9e09f516759c |
| github | https://github.com/faddat | |
| https://linkedin.com/in/jacob.gadikian | NA or "Jacob Gadikian" | |
| blogspot/blogger | faddat.blogspot.com | Jacob Gadikian / faddat |
| Skype | https://skype.com | faddat |
| ring | ring.cx | ring:4c5472060fe449cbd9e09f516759c |
| quora | https://quora.com/ | https://www.quora.com/profile/Jacob-Gadikian |
| Google+ | google.com/+jacobgadikian | faddat@gmail.com |
| personal homepage | jacobgadikian.com | Jake / faddat |
| medium.com | medium.com/@faddat | faddat |
| opehub.com | https://www.openhub.net/accounts/faddat | faddat |
| gitlab.com | https://gitlab.com/u/faddat | faddat |
| Maidsafe Forum | https://forum.safenetwork.io/users/faddat/activity | faddat |
Other Info
| key | value |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Jacob Anthony Gadikian |
| Age | 32 |
| Birth Year | 1983 |
| Current City | Hanoi |
| Office Address | Up Coworking, Hanoi Creative City, 1 Loung Yen, Hai ba trung, Hanoi |
| Politics | Techno-Utopian - give everyone a UBI so there's no poverty, and beyond that, let the market do its thing. |
Places I've made it to
https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1jJbstXZzjshOVzdlcDQUV68qc_A&hl=en
My location in real-time:
https://plus.google.com/+JacobGadikian/posts
(Hover over the part where it names a city...)