The Question of the day is:

@faddat is Jacob Gadikian, of course! Brief info:

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

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!

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
reddit	https://reddit.com/u/faddat	faddat
twitter	https://twitter.com/jacobgadikian	@jacobgadikian
facebook	https://facebook.com/jacob.gadikian	N/A or "Jacob Gadikian"
ring	https://ring.cx	ring:4c5472060fe449cbd9e09f516759c
github	https://github.com/faddat	@faddat
linkedin	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...)

Teaser 1

What can I say, they did a pretty good job with the card and logo:

Part Two can be found here