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Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we connect with Christos A. Makridis, a Research Assistant Professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. In addition to his work at Arizona State, Christos is a Digital Fellow at MIT IDE, a Non-resident Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Non-resident Fellow at the Institute for Religious Studies at Baylor University.
Christos works closely with both the business and academic sectors. He is the CEO and co-founder of Dainami and the CTO and co-founder of Living Opera – two startups at the cutting edge of new technology. His academic interests are vast, centering around labor economics, the digital economy, and personal finance and well-being…
Join us now to learn about:
- How to use data to tell a story and inform others.
- The connection between remote work and job satisfaction.
- How religious freedom and property rights can contribute to human flourishing.
- What "hybrid work" is, and what makes it beneficial to employees.
You can find more on Christos and his work by visiting his website!
Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
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| 0:00.0 | Forget frequently asked questions. |
| 0:02.3 | Common sense. |
| 0:03.1 | Common knowledge. |
| 0:04.1 | Or Google. |
| 0:04.7 | How about advice from a real genius? |
| 0:06.9 | 95% of people in any profession are good enough to be qualified in license. |
| 0:11.3 | 5% go above and beyond. |
| 0:13.1 | They become very good at what they do. |
| 0:14.8 | But only 0.1% are real geniuses. |
| 0:18.2 | Richard Jacobs has made it his life's mission to find them for you. |
| 0:22.2 | He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every field. |
| 0:25.1 | Sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets, and more. |
| 0:28.6 | Here come the geniuses. |
| 0:30.3 | This is the Finding Genius podcast with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:37.7 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast, now part of the Finding |
| 0:42.1 | Genius Foundation. |
| 0:43.2 | My guest today is Vistas McBedis. |
| 0:45.5 | He's an associate research professor at the W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State |
| 0:49.7 | University. |
| 0:50.5 | He has many other accolade and initiatives. |
| 0:52.4 | He's also a digital fellow at Stanford University. And we're going to get into the details, a little bit of that. Some of his work surrounding labor. Gristos, thank you for coming. Yeah, wonderful to be here. Thanks so much, Richard. Yeah, tell me a bit about your background. And it looks like your career path. You've engaged in many different things. So what's that been like? Wherever your interests take in you? Any interesting thing background you want to talk about? Yeah. Well, so I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and my parents run a small business. I greet a Greek restaurant. And so I kind of saw them doing a lot of different things, ranging from cooking to gardening, to just like getting citrus off the trees and then using it as ingredients in the restaurant. And I had a good experience in my undergraduate at Arizona State University and really focused on economics. But one of the things that I was just really deliberating about in the time was, okay, what am I uniquely kind of called to do? What am I supposed to do? Because there's so many different possible career paths. And you know, you got social media and all the internet out there kind of saying, hey, do this, do that, look for where there's a little bit more money and go in it, whatever it might be. And so I really kind of fell in love with the research process and how you can use data, how you can create your own data, which I'll get into in maybe another couple minutes, but how you can pull together data to not only understand |
| 2:02.0 | an issue at his score, but also tell a story that connects with people and then helps build |
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