I hadn’t read this at the time I wrote the post, but an excerpt from Ricki Heicklen’s piece in the “Mistakes” issue of Asterisk Magazine:
In January 2022, I decided to leave my job at Jane Street Capital to move to the Bahamas and take a job as a generalist at a new crypto firm funded by Sam Bankman-Fried. In the weeks that followed, I had three strokes of good luck:
a) I talked to a family friend, a lawyer familiar with financial fraud, who expressed alarm about various details of my new job. From our conversations, I made a list of a few dozen questions to investigate before committing.
b) I shared those questions with my new employers, believing they would be appreciated as valuable for our firm.
c) A few hours after sharing the questions, I was told not to come into work the next day
I hadn’t read this at the time I wrote the post, but an excerpt from Ricki Heicklen’s piece in the “Mistakes” issue of Asterisk Magazine: