Random Thoughts

Random Things I’m Thinking About in December 2025

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