Kevin Marks
epeus.blogspot.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Kevin Marks is a web technologist who writes about social media, identity, open web standards, and product design lessons.
What HN saysHN commenters cite his posts on Draw Something's decline, digital identity, and the iPad as the Web made physical.
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- 1Epeus' epigone: How not to be viral3 people · 6 points · first shared 2008 · 1 comments on HN
- 2How Twitter works in theory2 people · 5 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 3Draw Something CEO, grace and high school mathematics2 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 4Two faces of Android1 people · 19 points · first shared 2011 · 14 comments on HN
- 5Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus shun HTML, causing the infographic plague.1 people · 7 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 6Google Plus must stop this Identity Theatre1 people · 7 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 7The man who invented the computer1 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · 2 comments on HN
- 8Fragmentions – linking to any text1 people · 4 points · first shared 2014 · 2 comments on HN
- 9Faces call the trust code in our brains1 people · 3 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 10'with Amazon' replacing 'with Google' on Android?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 11Finally some progress in video codecs: trimeshes, textures and OpenGL1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 12I have a problem finding your URL. You post a QR Code. Now I have 2 problems:1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 13Kevin Marks' Farewell to Google1 people · 2 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 14The Antifragility of the Web1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 15Keep ALL the versions1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
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confluence · 2013-11-10
This phenemona has a name. It's called the MBA index.
It truly is one of the greatest contra-indicators I have ever had the pleasure of observing first hand. It's a wonder to behold.
> When expensively educated, fashionable young graduates start showing up in your field, you're in a bubble.
- Kevin Marks, http://epeus.blogspot.com.au/2005/12/key-indicator-for-bubble.html, derived from Liar's Poker, by Michael Lewis.
> This year, some 37% of Harvard Business School's graduate found work on Wall Street, up from 30% a year ago and 26% for the Class of 2004. The trend suggests that Wall Street is becoming bloated and the American economy is ripe for a slowdown.
Mr. Soifer, who retired from Brown Brothers in 2000 and now runs his own consulting firm, appears to be on to something. He advised his friends and colleagues to sell back in 2000, when 30% of the HBS graduating class took jobs on Wall Street. Before that, the last long-term sell he sent was in 1987.
Source: http://www.nysun.com/business/equities-swing-with-harvard-mbas/43220/
> Mr. Soifer notes that the Harvard M.B.A. indicator has historically been more prolific as a source of “sell’ signals, showing strong results in 1987, 2000-02, and 2005-08, than “buy” signals. In fact, the last time it reached the 10 percent “buy” level was in the early 1980s, when the Dow Jones industrial average traded below 1,000.
The all-time low was reached in 1937, when only three graduates — about 1 percent — braved the market and…
epeus · 2019-09-13
Getting this wrong can tank your product - see what happened to Draw Something http://epeus.blogspot.com/2012/04/draw-something-ceo-grace-and-high.ht…
Eyght · 2017-03-27
Many of the problems he describes keeps coming back with each iteration of technological evolution. Like the Ident-I-Eeze card[1] and the inherent issue with providing reliable identification.
[1] http://epeus.blogspot.se/2002/12/douglas-adams-on-digital-id.html
Kevin_Marks · 2010-01-29
Alex's fears remind me of 'real programmers' reactiosn to the Web when it came out. The iPad is the Web made physical.
http://epeus.blogspot.com/2010/01/ipad-is-web-made-physical.html