Kevin Merlini
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Interests

I am interested in a lot of things, here are some of them:

Analytics, BI, Data Visualization
Angel Investing
Architecture
Automation, and its economic/societal impacts
Behavioral Psychology
Content ranking & recommendation systems
DAOs
Data
DeFi
Dystopic fiction
Economics
Entrepreneurship
Europe
Flying & Aerospace
Fractionalized real estate
Free Will vs Determinism
Growth Product management
Higher Education Economics
History of Accounting
Ideation and Innovation Systems
Incentive structures
Industrial Design / Engineering
Internet Governance
Ivan Illich
Journalism
Kurt Vonnegut
Machine Learning & AI
Maker Culture
Managerial Accounting applied to Product Management
Manufacturing
Measurement
ML Explainability, Transparency, Fairness
Multi-objective optimizations, algorithms as resource allocators
Music Data Visualization
Philosophy of Measurement
Platform governance & legitimacy
Post-Capitalism, UBI
Product experimentation (A/B testing)
Product Management as a discipline
Product Metrics/Analytics
Productivity tools
Rapid Prototyping
Real Estate Investing
Social Media & Politics
Student Debt
Surveillance Capitalism
Systems thinking
Taoism, the concept of WuWei
Tech debt
Tech Ethics
Tech Policy
The Future of Work
The History of the Publics
The Internet
Tools for augmented thought
Online Trust & Safety / Integrity
Venture Capital
Web3

Hobbies & Hobby Adjacent Interests:

  • Reading an absurd amount of content
  • Skiing
  • Sailing
  • Kiteboarding
  • Rock Climbing
  • Music
  • Going to concerts
  • My dog Frankie & pugs in general
  • Cycling
  • Cheese
  • Making & eating Pizza
  • Camping
  • Road Trips
  • Playing Guitar & Harmonica
  • Photography
  • Drone flying
  • Comedy TV & Movies
  • NY Times Crossword
  • Golf