Random Thoughts

Random Things I’m Thinking About in December 2025

by gregkroleski
  1. Is being a corporate employee just an inefficient way to be a node in a spark cluster?
  2. The effectiveness of the brain as a biological computer and how much of that can be recreated
  3. 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?
  4. 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?
  5. 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 dispute that.
  6. Cooking the perfect steak
  7. If people ever change and how much intervention that takes. Or if lives that look like they have changed are just the result of high variance events returning to the mean. Perhaps both of those make the same case for second chances.
  8. That we are a story-based species and that story is the only thing that can change us. Business depends on government. Government depends on the popular option. The popular opinion is shaped by story.
  9. What happened to private orphanages and are we better off with the current government-backed foster care and welfare system?
  10. The trend of photo op experience centers taking over retail space
  11. Could I run a profitable non-traditional movie theater by skipping expensive new releases and focusing on events built around older fan favorites

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