Is being a corporate employee just an inefficient way to be a node in a spark cluster? The effectiveness of the brain as a biological computer and how much of that can be recreated Where does value accrue as six-figure+ white collar knowledge work transfers to computer systems? The hardware layer? The software? The stitching? Or does the entire value chain greatly diminish? Can I build an agentic PM based on years of being a PM and managing PMs? Would my experience lend itself to creating a better agentic PM or would my experience hinder me? Oogie Boogie from the Nightmare Before Christmas is probably the most off putting character in fiction. He is a burlap sack filled with bugs that acts in a coordinated manner as one creature. His existence causes us to consider the notion that we are just a coordinated bag of cells. It is difficult to
I’ve been living my life in seven year chunks since I was 24 and began my career in earnest. I work hard for six years and attempt to rest in the seventh year (to varying degrees of success), recalibrate and refocus. It is a practice that dates back thousands of years but isn’t followed much anymore. I find there is often wisdom in old traditions though. Back at the end of 2018 I wrote a vision for the next seven years of my life (actually 7.5 years since I decided to shift the start from mid-year to align with the calendar year). I had realized that most of the people I studied had their greatest impact later in life, and that to achieve similar things, I should spend some time focusing on preparations with the long term in mind. Even if I did not know what that long term involved. Now,