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I didn’t know Om Malik. But apparently I missed out, as he was universally, outwardly adored. The number of effusive farewell posts Om has received this week upon his passing at age 59 is something to behold. Om’s status as Silicon Valley’s favorite eminence grise was not news. We can rest assured he knew he was loved. The blogosphere is just reminding us why. I particularly like Jim Nielsen’s, because it gives us a glimpse of Om’s nature: One day on Twitter I got a DM…: Jim I wanted to thank…

Matt Glassman blogged about this topic yesterday, and I thought it was an interesting subject to recall. As he wrote, here are “the national news events for which I can recall precisely where I was when I found out about them. Excludes sporting events, elections, (most) court decisions, and the passage of legislation, and must […]

Yankees’ Netflix debut is latest example of sports’ complicated TV landscape. The headline of this Andrew Marchand piece in the Athletic says it all. Did you know the Yankees’ regular-season games shuffle between eight different television outlets? The Yanks are big enough that casual fans will find them here and there, and I guess that’s […]

Like everyone, I’m busy developing expertise in harnessing AI, vibe coding in my spare time. I have a couple of product ideas I’d like to wrangle, but they’re going to take some time to get right. So I’ve been undertaking in-one-sitting projects and improving my prompting skill. Last month, I had Claude pull this blog […]

Really enjoyed this blog post that slowly traces the English language back in time for a thousand years.