Shoals

Otto and Eugene

When any of us have a job that requires courage, and the winds are blowing against us, what will we do?

Posted on January 10, 2021

On November 9, 1938, Goebbels turned the SA loose on Jewish communities throughout Germany, in a pogrom now known as Kristallnacht. With the veneer of a “popular, spontaneous uprising”, nazis smashed Jewish business, attacked Jews, and arrested them in the thousands, heralding the horrors to come. [Read More]

Democratizing data science where it counts

Posted on July 14, 2020

We at Faraday are data science experts. We have a collective century of experience in the mystical arts of data whispering; we’ve transformed oceans of rows and columns, built and discarded thousands of databases, and molded far-seeing algorithms in a dozen programming languages. [Read More]

Family artifacts

A story about a bottle and a war, with subtext about the magic of corroborating accounts.

Posted on March 9, 2020

My grandmother died last Spring. We mourn of course, but she lived to 100, saw and did amazing things, and the family has more a sense of respectful awe than anything else. In any case this is actually about a bottle of her perfume that came to me recently. [Read More]