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  1. Job Search

    Well, we're deep into 2024, and I haven't done a check-in yet.

    After surviving what felt like a dozen rounds of layoffs at Fast Radius, I was laid off from my "Mr. Manager" data science job, along with the rest of the holdovers from the software team. Stay tuned for …

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  2. Part Two: Why did Fast Radius Fail?

    FSRD is like the holy grail of shit-SPACs.

    @ItalianRicePie, Reddit

    Fast Radius went public through a SPAC on February 7, 2022 trading as FSRD on the Nasdaq. Just nine months later it declared bankruptcy. Part one tried to answer, "what happened?" and part two here tries to answer "why?".

    I …

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  3. Part One: What happened to Fast Radius?

    Founded in 2015, Fast Radius went public through a SPAC on February 7, 2022 trading as FSRD on the Nasdaq. Just nine months later it declared bankruptcy. What happened?

    This is my attempt to tell the story from my perspective and untangle a bit of the mess. This isn’t …

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  4. PyCharm

    I still use PyCharm as my daily text editor.

    IDEs like PyCharm have tons of features and the 80/20 rule applies: investing 20% effort learning the tool will get you 80% productivity. The rest is marginal gains and your effort is better spent thinking about your code.

    Here, I'll …

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