Oh, Howdy!

I'm Spencer — welcome to the page!

I like to be lazy, and will work incredibly hard to help other people be lazy, too.

• 🎨 Most of my projects are centered around data processing and visualization, with a bit of developer utility libraries mixed in for zest
• 🏛️ During the day, I work at @constituentvoice building utilties that help citizens connect with their elected representatives
• ☕ In my off hours, I spend my time playing music, writing (at @chaoticgoodcomputing), and drinking a reprehensible amount of drip coffee.

Published Notes

I try to make a habit of publishing interesting/helpful notes from my Obsidian vault. If you read one and want to chat more about it, reach out!

• Working with Valves: Understanding the Structure of "Flat" Organizations: Many an engineer has heard tales of Valve's "flat" organization structure — what is fact, what is fiction, and how does it actually work? An annotated copy of the 2012 First Edition of Valve's Employee Handbook. (23 min read)

  • Tags: #strategy, #engineering, #ai, #annotations

• The Theory of Stupidity (and the graph inside you): Our lives are all dominated by a little graph in our hearts — and sometimes, that graph gets wacky. A review of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Theory of Stupidity", part of his larger ~1943-1945 work "Letters and Papers from Prison." (12 min read)

  • Tags: #annotations, #economics

• Systems: Week 11: Watch a human cope about bots taking his job in real time. Is he cooked? Find out tonight in Season of Systems: Week 11! (6 min read)

  • Tags: #systems, #ai, #bio, #economics

• Design of a mucin-selective protease for targeted degradation of cancer-associated mucins: The rubber hits the road on ColabFold! I hope that's rubber I'm smelling — although it may be the computer. A replication attempt of a protein fold figure in K. Pedram et al (2023). (8 min read)

  • Tags: #bio, #data, #python, #annotations

• An Annotated Guide to Hobbyist Protein Folding: Amaze (or bore) your friends and family by picking up on a hot new hobby that's all the rage — protein folding! An annotated starter to the 2021 paper "ColabFold - Making protein folding accessible to all" (10 min read)

  • Tags: #bio, #data, #python, #homelab, #annotations