All blogs / Tech news / industry
On my Om
Om connects the dots between technology, business, and its impact on humanity. Subscribe for thoughtful, original insights into the present and future.
- Posts
- 4,798 from 1 Oct 1997 to 8 Jun 2026
- Posting
- weekly (107 in the last year)
- Kind
- personal blog
- Feed
- https://om.co/feed/
Latest
June 2026
- Taking a Few Days Off
- The Myth, the Mythos and the Man
- Silicon Valley’s Biggest Payday. Yet!
- AI models are having their iPhone moment. What’s Next?
- Clothes Are Nice. Fashion Biz, Not As Much!
May 2026
- Truth is Fiction or is it?
- Anthropic, AI and The “Numbers” Problem
- The Copy and the Guru
- We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World
- What to Read This Weekend
- The Rocket That Runs on Broadband
- Snowcaps
- AI in Everything, Everywhere
- AI is the New Netflix
- Signing off in a world of what’s next
- How AI Is Changing the Network(s)
- Say Hello to the Internet of AI
- What to read this weekend
- What Microsoft’s 10-Q Says About OpenAI
- What I Learned about Hyperscalers’ AI Spend
April 2026
- With AI, Headline isn’t the story
- What’s wrong in my thinking about Errors?
- Gigabit First Nation by 2030
- Memory Is the Machine
- Software Eats Its Own
- John Appleseed
- What to Read This Weekend
- Wishes for Ron Conway
- Eat Your Words
- Newbird.AI! Or Loony.AI
- Human Error is OK! Machine Madness is a No-No! Why?
- What To Read This Weekend,
- Banksy, Satoshi & The Unmasking Impulse
- Upstream Speeds, Needs Up Again
- Sam Always Wins
- What To Read This Weekend
- Why OpenAI bought TBPN
- OpenAI: The Fix Is In
March 2026
- Penimimal
- What To Read This Weekend
- Seeker
- ‘Astound’ed. Google Flips Its Fiber To PE.
- Jargon Sucks
- Meta’s Moment of Reckoning
- We Are Now An Upload (Broadband) Nation
- 23 years!
- More Magic Math from OpenAI?
- What To Read This Weekend
- Why Fraud Is The Boring Problem
- How Not to Interview (Interesting People)
- OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
- Lobster Boil
- What To Read This Weekend
- The Return of Travis Kalanick: Fact & Fluff!
- Tanhā & Our Modern Consumerism
- Neo Symbolic Capitalism
- Life Has a Hex Code
- The Essence of a Machine
- The Debt Beneath the Dream
- The 2026 iPad Air M4: Early Impressions
- What To Read This Weekend
- The Great (ai) Game vs AI Theater
- Luckin Isn’t Stupid
- With Neo, Apple Goes After Windows 11
- Apple Does Fusion.
- Apple Does Value (Week)
- $110 Billion in Name Only
- What To Read This Weekend
February 2026
- Block & Tackle: Job Cuts & the AI Narrative
- Amazon & The Cost of (AI) Lateness
- The Big Poppa
- Sam “Claws” Attention Back OpenAI
- YouTube on Vision Pro! Finally!
- Mad Money & The Big AI Race
- Living in the Petri Dish of the Future
- Is Waymo Worth $126 Billion?
- Conveniencing Ourselves to Irrelevance
- The Greatest Invention is….
- How AI Goes to Work
- OpenClaw is Hawt
- Our Crazy Unhinged Now
- Word Boost
- The New Announcement Economy
- The Dark Side of FOMO
- Why Tech (&) Media is complicated
January 2026
- A CEO, Captured.
- Does Evidence Even Matter?
- The Joy of Neo-noir
- Velocity Is the New Authority. Here’s Why
- Our Algorithmic Grey-Beige World
- Who decides what’s real in the age of AI? Instagram does.
- What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo?
- A Pen Hobbyist Looks Back at 2025
- Welcome to 2026.
December 2025
November 2025
- Leftovers
- An Accidental Grail
- The Harmonic
- The Patina of Words
- Why Value Outlasts Valuation
- The Unseen Joy of Hooligan
- The World Series & The Weekend Reader
October 2025
- Why Tech Needs Personalization
- Fall Classic, 5 GoodReads & Happy Diwali
- The Inverse Law of Conference Speaking
- My Pilot (pen) gets a new life
- Sunset in Saint Malo
- Pen Review – Leonardo Momento Zero Brooks Bohemian Twilight (Pen Chalet x Leonardo, 2022)
September 2025
- A Symphony in Green and Gold
- Go Out & Get Some Air
- What Ben & John Don’t Get
- The iPhone 17 Event: Less Awe, More Unsexy & That’s A Good Thing
- A Meditation on iPhone, Time, & FOMO
- Why I Started This Newsletter
- An End to Summer
August 2025
July 2025
- Meta’s Favorite Product Isn’t AI. It’s the Copy Button.
- Decoding Zuck’s Superintelligence Memo
- The Satya of Satya’s Layoff Memo
- Exit Stage Colbert
- Et. Tu FT?
- 07.19.2025: The Weekend Edition
- Uber’s Robotaxi Is No Quick Delivery
- An Immigrant Story
June 2025
- What Founders Can Learn From Topaz Labs
- Mac Finder Redesign? Snooze
- Here comes the Internet of “tolls”
- My Big Beta Weekend
- Back after a break
- Is Sigma BF worth the hype?
- Will Apple Stream Live F1 (Racing)?
- The Material Review Chats with Me
May 2025
- George Dyson on AI
- What’s Half of Nothing?
- OpenAI, Jony Ive & the Art of the Deal
- Why did OpenAI buy Jony Ive & Co
- The Method of the Monster
- The Real Cost of Chinese Open-Source AI
- How iPhone has evolved as a Camera
- Designing a Life
- What an Unusual Week
- Satellites, Fixed Wireless Reshape Global Broadband Landscape”
- R.I.P. Skype!
- Spring has sprung
April 2025
Every year
2026 942025 1252024 1712023 1762022 1262021 1612020 3062019 3272018 1592017 1512016 2912015 3132014 2782013 2732012 4552011 4132010 1002009 842008 122007 842006 2472005 692004 862003 2842000 21999 31998 71997 1