# The Question of the day is:

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@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

![Screenshotfrom2016-07-2505352520b94.png](https://www.steemimg.com/images/2016/07/24/Screenshotfrom2016-07-2505352520b94.png)
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
![1468448903802d2b02.jpg](https://www.steemimg.com/images/2016/07/24/1468448903802d2b02.jpg)

### What can I say, they did a pretty good job with the card and logo:
![IMG_20160711_202914da8e5.jpg](https://www.steemimg.com/images/2016/07/24/IMG_20160711_202914da8e5.jpg)

### [Part Two can be found here](https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@faddat/travel-100-more-creative-commons-licensed-tits-part-2-of-3-who-is-faddat-china-edition)