Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 03/03/2026individually satisfying, together they constitute a pattern of refreshment™️ 000
Reposted by Christopher KoskiKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/01/2026When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways 8642951502
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 30/08/2025going to be real honest I expected certain reasonable things from a visit to wellington: wind, museums, civil servants I did not expect going to a music venue called “San Fran Bath House” to see a bunch of drunk adult theatre kids belt along to Hamilton for like an hour 010
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 30/08/2025me, in March: wait, what. why is this NZ accounting company trying to hire me me, in August: (watching some kind of twink-focused drag show at Wellington’s only(?) gay bar) 130
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 23/04/2025There are 27 customers here and 25 of them are men 000
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Update: the Blue Bottle in the Financial District is exactly what you would expect it to be 100
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 20/04/2025bartending in new orleans in the late 2000s, 9/10 tourists pronounced it "one of them tee-kates" 010
Reposted by Christopher KoskiAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over. 11424171911203
Reposted by Christopher KoskiCorey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 06/03/2025Reminder: if you haven’t yet read “The Mythical Man Month,” buy two copies so you can read it faster. 2961493
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 16/02/2025The Marin BART extension. We could have had BART service down Geary, growth in SF's north and west, reduced car-dependence in Marin, and beautiful GG views for pax 020
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 19/01/2025the apps differ pretty starkly in how adversarially useful their data is. tiktok builds detailed profiles of interests/contacts/locations/time use -- v. grindr, where even historic use was sufficient for blackmail and generally didn't expose close contacts. a one-time buy of grindr data was enough 000
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 18/01/2025you know that bit in 30 rock where they're trying to tank the company on purpose. this has to be that, right www.usatoday.com/story/money/...usatoday.comWalgreens CEO on shoplifting strategy: 'Lock things up ... you don't sell as many'Retailers have been faced with increases in shoplifting and retail theft. But anti-theft prevention can hurt retail sales, says the CEO of Walgreens. 0310
Reposted by Christopher KoskiQenny @akbrews.bsky.social · 28/12/2024I'm absolutely losing it over these entries for the Illinois State flag redesign 2171
Reposted by Christopher KoskiAnil Dash @anildash.com · 08/12/2024The dramatic reveal when you've been listening to somebody talk, and you're thinking "ah, that's just some regular guy" and then they have the long "O" in "pro-cess" or whatever and suddenly you realize you've been engaging with A CANADIAN 71111077
Reposted by Christopher Koski😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 11/02/2024 222119461
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 16/10/2024Mostly confident in my masculinity (mustache) despite never having gotten into crypto or sports betting. Am I still a man 010
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 04/09/2024Same at investor relations and SEC-filings conferences this year. Debates on how to set and describe ESG goals with the note that climate change “as an acknowledged reality” is, relatively speaking, the easiest of all public goals to set 041
Reposted by Christopher Koskitweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 26/08/2024it sort of hadn't occurred to me—until he, you know, wrote a book about it—that the story of nate silver's decline is the story of a brutal, uncontrolled, and unrecognized gambling addiction 351559369
Reposted by Christopher Koskihypoallergenic bobcat alternative @noghiri.bsky.social · 23/08/2024becoming radically anti-fraud, first as a bit, and then because my parents don't deserve this hostile of an environment in their old age 914617
Reposted by Christopher KoskiAlec Stapp @alecstapp.bsky.social · 20/06/2024Contender for favorite chart of all time: Predictions vs. Reality for solar energy. 562252737
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 20/05/2024Lost my mind last week trying to explain how their partnership structure related to their profit-participation units. I am now ride-or-die for Team C-Corp 100
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 08/03/2024Yes! His comedy on disability is pretty incredible, Daniel Sloss is also good on this. And more points to Gillis on how he speaks to addiction in family members, and even some sharp eye on class. The guy is good But it's the Chappelle curse, where some fans take the words, but not the art/love 100
Reposted by Christopher KoskiMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 19/12/2023remember that time our government briefly lifted millions of children out of poverty then said aw hell no and put them back into poverty 201065365
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 18/12/2023I mean, deal negotiations allowed Adobe to stall out a key competitor for 15 months, and now create a pretty extreme dissatisfaction among that competitor's own employee base. That's not nothing 020
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 15/12/2023Optimists don't see the glass as half full, they see zero as positively-signed 140
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 15/12/2023That math would be very difficult for most companies to stand up, even with software: however bad you think HR teams are at math, it is worse. Parity penalties would have the effect of tightening distributions within individual cos, but it would also make wages much stickier than they already are 010
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 14/12/2023Regulatory changes that would fix this problem: 1/ Requiring that the maximum of a posted range must not be more than 100% of the minimum (so, if the minimum were $60K, the maximum posting would be $120K) 2/ Requiring annual disclosure of the median employee rate by county and SOC code where n>=10 100
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 22/11/2023Oh no. You're going to summon the Nantucket Waterfront Homeowners 000
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 08/05/2023Hmm. $362K is unusually high for a single year of exec comp work, and it’s surprising to see Mercer in this space. Interesting 110
Reposted by Christopher KoskiSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 08/05/2023The more wrenches you can throw into the gears of automated de-duplication cross-database identity matching the better. 3676
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 04/05/2023Thunder is so rare in Seattle that I just assumed the volcano had finally decided to destroy Tacoma 010
Reposted by Christopher KoskiSenior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar.bsky.social · 04/05/2023For sale: Californian bank; depositors churned. 0224
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 02/05/2023If you just gave me a big hello & long time no see while we were on opposite escalators at Northgate station: I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to be rude, I just have absolutely no idea who you are or how we know each other 010
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 28/04/2023Bigger than stone money. The enemy-crushing implication of the coin must be clear 030
Christopher Koski @chriskoski.bsky.social · 27/04/2023Something something migratory birds something 100
