Published inUrban Fictionary·PinnedNo Cap“C’mon, Cap’, that’s ridiculous,” I said with a grunt as he turned the car’s radio back up to avoid further rebuttal. He was trying to convince me that BLACKPINK was going to prevail over NewJeans and XG, and that revenue was the sole arbiter of success in this world —…Fiction4 min readFiction4 min read
Apr 30A Short Aside On The Death Of PopYe old Seth Godin, of internet fame, recently posted a missive about the death of pop. Of particular note to me from his was the following snippet: What does go away, though, is the commercial dynamic of thousands of someones in Nashville or Hollywood hitting it big big big with…Short Aside2 min readShort Aside2 min read
Mar 29A Short Aside On Large Language Models And Kojima’s ProphecyAmong all the chatter about large language models and their ongoing impact on society and business, and with memories writing for Ars Technica floating back into consciousness in turn, I couldn’t help but be reminded of a piece of art well before its time that talked, at length, about the…Large Language Models2 min readLarge Language Models2 min read
Published inUrban Fictionary·Mar 5Avenue CI can’t even go for a coffee on Sunday morning without falling in love. She’s sitting across from me right now. Jet black short hair. Harsh cheeks. Dark liner. Green army jacket. You know the type. She’s on her Lindsay Weir trip, and I’m loving every second of it. Freaks…Writing3 min readWriting3 min read
Published inBuild @ Reach Financial·Updated Feb 24Predictive Underwriting With Salesforce Private Connect & Flows, AWS SageMaker, and LightGBMHi there! Frank here. Super hyped to share our first full engineering deep dive. For more context on this blog, see our inaugural “Hello, World” post. Debt is a difficult subject for many, and that’s a big part of why Reach Financial is working hard to help millions of Americans. …Sagemaker10 min readSagemaker10 min read
Published inBuild @ Reach Financial·Feb 23Hello, World!Hi there! My name is Frank Caron, and I run the Product team at Reach Financial. Our company makes it easier for everyday Americans to get access to the capital needed to consolidate debt and reach financial freedom. Last year, our team began to invest heavily in scaling our platform…Hello World2 min readHello World2 min read
Published inUrban Fictionary·Jan 11Rat RaceThe ash from John’s limp cigarette fell to the ground, lost in a sea of stains and scars upon the concrete steps on which he sat. …Rat Race2 min readRat Race2 min read
Jan 6Year Six — The Grand FinaleThey say you should never meet your heroes. The origin of the adage is debated, but for what little historiography I am capable of, I can provide a PageRank’d provenance to the prose of Gustave Flaubert who, in his Madame Bovary, opined “Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la…Leadership4 min readLeadership4 min read
Published inBootcamp·Jan 30, 2022The Journey From Product Marketing To Pre-Sales: (Yet) A(nother) Rationalization For PosterityIn 2016, after five years of working in technical Product Management, I made a decision about my career. I was going to pivot into Product Marketing. I had some strong beliefs in my youth, but chief among them was the belief that selling software is harder than building software. I…Software Development6 min readSoftware Development6 min read
Dec 31, 2021Year FiveI awoke at 3 this morning, tired eyes resolved towards the ceiling, amber-tinted from the Manhattan night light, and lucid mind fixed on its dream. I dreamt of being again annually at a loss for worthwhile words — a now-perennial tradition—because the corporate chastity I gladly chose had nevertheless drained…Recap5 min readRecap5 min read