Adam Markakis

@adammarkakis

Hopefully a bit better than yesterday. Sticking around until factory farming, driving and current school system are obsolete. Lead Analyst

Athens, Greece
Vrijeme pridruživanja: srpanj 2019.

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  1. 3. velj

    Seneca, On the shortness of life.

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  2. 2. velj

    very hard to pick the latter if you have high responsibilities (cost of living, debt, family, etc). we need to disrupt this much earlier in life by lowering costs (opportunity costs included) of not picking these "safe" choices, which at the macro level are the opposite of that

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  3. 2. velj

    you either numb yourself further and wait for years at which point you are probably devoid of drive and ideas to do anything substantial or proceed with creative desctruction of your own life up to that point and you try to get into one of the few/new sectors that are exceptions

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  4. 2. velj

    But when rate of learning gets very low, you hit a wall of being too young (at 30!) to assume more responsibility and a position that would enable you to drive progress. choices?

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  5. 2. velj

    As long as you learn new things, you are ok w putting aside feelings of frustration about lack of experimentation, innovation, or even willingness to discuss such things, lack of status, recongintion and real responsibility and any revolutionary fires burning inside you.

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  6. 2. velj

    personal experience aligns with both views. if you are not madly passionate with something during school years (you'd need external stimuli for that) you end up buying into this insurance, of "thick, liquid job markets, with high upside but also protection on the downside."

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  7. 2. velj

    (1) so many of best and brightest college graduates go into management consulting, finance or law (2) so many in top positions, both in public and private sector, are so old (1) + (2) = (3) declining productivity growth via

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  8. 2. velj

    - Average age of incoming CEOs for S&P 500 has increased 14 years over the last 14 years, keeping the average birth year of a CEO the same since 2005. - Share of 60+ University Presidents increased from 30% to almost 60% in 15 years via

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  9. 1. velj

    “..the increasing enfranchisement of women, not merely the rise of democracy itself, is the cause of the democratic peace.” -

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  10. 31. sij

    "A couple of decades ago, it was perfectly normal to smoke cigarettes inside. I think it’s the same with cars in the city centre – one day, we will look back and ask ourselves why we ever thought that was a good idea." already asking!

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  11. 30. sij
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  12. 29. sij

    People underestimated how many people are using Spotify and don't view it as an accessible product in general, resulting in reverse market shares under this more social setting

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  13. 29. sij

    due to insecurity about whether the other person would actually be able to listen to the song, everyone preferred to open a browser, go to YouTube, type the name of the song, click on the video, check the quality, copy the link and paste it on Slack

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  14. 29. sij

    I am in a channel on Slack, and 90% of the people were sharing songs via . This stuck me as odd, so I surveyed them on where do they listen to music and 80% answered

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  15. 29. sij

    if you don't feel like this when you are in the zone, you are doing the wrong thing

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  16. 28. sij

    "Yet it seems odd to discount the well-being of people as their velocity increases" - , Stubborn Attachments

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  17. 27. sij

    το ετος ειναι 2137 και οι αριστεροχειρες επικυρωνουν ακομα το εισιτηριο τους σε λαθος πυλη στο μετρο

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  18. 25. sij

    "Each year, about 15% of queries on Google have never been searched for before."

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  19. 25. sij

    also could pay per use models actually be differentiated enough mental accounting-wise so that we would be willing to pay X amount for Y articles but not the same amount for a subscription (and unlimited articles) if we already have a certain amount of active subscriptions?

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  20. 25. sij

    for example, could the fact that there is no great free TV be a more important reason for our unwillingness to buy a podcast subscription than the fact that most podcasts are free?

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