Greg Kroleski

This is the first post in a series I’m calling “Through a Glass, Darkly: Brains, Machines, and the Stories That Shape Us”.

At the start of a new year, I take the time to set my focus for the coming year.

This is not only a new year, but it is also the first full year of my next sabbath year cycle.

This post is part of a series where I talk about technologies and make guesses about how they’ll deliver value in the future.

Each year I focus my attention on a few named goals as a way to be more intentional about the pursuits I direct my energy towards.

Is being a corporate employee just an inefficient way to be a node in a spark cluster?

I’ve been living my life in seven year chunks since I was 24 and began my career in earnest.

Ten years ago I wrote about what it meant to be to be able to afford something and that financial independence meant the state of being able to chose to work where I wanted, doing what I wanted, or not at all if that is what I wanted.

Three years ago I wrote about why I decided to join Databricks and each year since then I’ve reflected on the year (here are the 1st and 2nd years).

Over the past decade of advising, managing and mentoring PMs, the most common piece of advice I’ve given is simple – don’t change teams, yet.