The Curious Engineer

On my Om

2019–2026

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2026 94

June 2026

  1. Taking a Few Days Off
  2. The Myth, the Mythos and the Man
  3. Silicon Valley’s Biggest Payday. Yet!
  4. AI models are having their iPhone moment. What’s Next?
  5. Clothes Are Nice. Fashion Biz, Not As Much!

May 2026

  1. Truth is Fiction or is it?
  2. Anthropic, AI and The “Numbers” Problem
  3. The Copy and the Guru
  4. We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World
  5. What to Read This Weekend
  6. The Rocket That Runs on Broadband
  7. Snowcaps
  8. AI in Everything, Everywhere
  9. AI is the New Netflix
  10. Signing off in a world of what’s next
  11. How AI Is Changing the Network(s)
  12. Say Hello to the Internet of AI
  13. What to read this weekend
  14. What Microsoft’s 10-Q Says About OpenAI
  15. What I Learned about Hyperscalers’ AI Spend

April 2026

  1. With AI, Headline isn’t the story
  2. What’s wrong in my thinking about Errors?
  3. Gigabit First Nation by 2030
  4. Memory Is the Machine
  5. Software Eats Its Own
  6. John Appleseed
  7. What to Read This Weekend
  8. Wishes for Ron Conway
  9. Eat Your Words
  10. Newbird.AI! Or Loony.AI
  11. Human Error is OK! Machine Madness is a No-No! Why?
  12. What To Read This Weekend,
  13. Banksy, Satoshi & The Unmasking Impulse
  14. Upstream Speeds, Needs Up Again
  15. Sam Always Wins
  16. What To Read This Weekend
  17. Why OpenAI bought TBPN
  18. OpenAI: The Fix Is In

March 2026

  1. Penimimal
  2. What To Read This Weekend
  3. Seeker
  4. ‘Astound’ed. Google Flips Its Fiber To PE.
  5. Jargon Sucks
  6. Meta’s Moment of Reckoning
  7. We Are Now An Upload (Broadband) Nation
  8. 23 years!
  9. More Magic Math from OpenAI?
  10. What To Read This Weekend
  11. Why Fraud Is The Boring Problem
  12. How Not to Interview (Interesting People)
  13. OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
  14. Lobster Boil
  15. What To Read This Weekend
  16. The Return of Travis Kalanick: Fact & Fluff!
  17. Tanhā & Our Modern Consumerism
  18. Neo Symbolic Capitalism
  19. Life Has a Hex Code
  20. The Essence of a Machine
  21. The Debt Beneath the Dream
  22. The 2026 iPad Air M4: Early Impressions
  23. What To Read This Weekend
  24. The Great (ai) Game vs AI Theater
  25. Luckin Isn’t Stupid
  26. With Neo, Apple Goes After Windows 11
  27. Apple Does Fusion.
  28. Apple Does Value (Week)
  29. $110 Billion in Name Only
  30. What To Read This Weekend

February 2026

  1. Block & Tackle: Job Cuts & the AI Narrative
  2. Amazon & The Cost of (AI) Lateness
  3. The Big Poppa
  4. Sam “Claws” Attention Back OpenAI
  5. YouTube on Vision Pro! Finally!
  6. Mad Money & The Big AI Race
  7. Living in the Petri Dish of the Future
  8. Is Waymo Worth $126 Billion?
  9. Conveniencing Ourselves to Irrelevance
  10. The Greatest Invention is….
  11. How AI Goes to Work
  12. OpenClaw is Hawt
  13. Our Crazy Unhinged Now
  14. Word Boost
  15. The New Announcement Economy
  16. The Dark Side of FOMO
  17. Why Tech (&) Media is complicated

January 2026

  1. A CEO, Captured.
  2. Does Evidence Even Matter?
  3. The Joy of Neo-noir
  4. Velocity Is the New Authority. Here’s Why
  5. Our Algorithmic Grey-Beige World
  6. Who decides what’s real in the age of AI? Instagram does.
  7. What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo?
  8. A Pen Hobbyist Looks Back at 2025
  9. Welcome to 2026.

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December 2025

  1. My Top Ten Pens of 2025
  2. A Morning (Photo) Walk
  3. #18 & AI: 2025 Reading List
  4. Merry Christmas
  5. Lady In Red

November 2025

  1. Leftovers
  2. An Accidental Grail
  3. The Harmonic
  4. The Patina of Words
  5. Why Value Outlasts Valuation
  6. The Unseen Joy of Hooligan
  7. The World Series & The Weekend Reader

October 2025

  1. Why Tech Needs Personalization
  2. Fall Classic, 5 GoodReads & Happy Diwali
  3. The Inverse Law of Conference Speaking
  4. My Pilot (pen) gets a new life
  5. Sunset in Saint Malo
  6. Pen Review – Leonardo Momento Zero Brooks Bohemian Twilight (Pen Chalet x Leonardo, 2022)

September 2025

  1. A Symphony in Green and Gold
  2. Go Out & Get Some Air
  3. What Ben & John Don’t Get
  4. The iPhone 17 Event: Less Awe, More Unsexy & That’s A Good Thing
  5. A Meditation on iPhone, Time, & FOMO
  6. Why I Started This Newsletter
  7. An End to Summer

August 2025

  1. Why AI Disrupts Software First
  2. The Why of Substack

July 2025

  1. Meta’s Favorite Product Isn’t AI. It’s the Copy Button.
  2. Decoding Zuck’s Superintelligence Memo
  3. The Satya of Satya’s Layoff Memo
  4. Exit Stage Colbert
  5. Et. Tu FT?
  6. 07.19.2025: The Weekend Edition
  7. Uber’s Robotaxi Is No Quick Delivery
  8. An Immigrant Story

June 2025

  1. What Founders Can Learn From Topaz Labs
  2. Mac Finder Redesign? Snooze
  3. Here comes the Internet of “tolls”
  4. My Big Beta Weekend
  5. Back after a break
  6. Is Sigma BF worth the hype?
  7. Will Apple Stream Live F1 (Racing)?
  8. The Material Review Chats with Me

May 2025

  1. George Dyson on AI
  2. What’s Half of Nothing?
  3. OpenAI, Jony Ive & the Art of the Deal
  4. Why did OpenAI buy Jony Ive & Co
  5. The Method of the Monster
  6. The Real Cost of Chinese Open-Source AI
  7. How iPhone has evolved as a Camera
  8. Designing a Life
  9. What an Unusual Week
  10. Satellites, Fixed Wireless Reshape Global Broadband Landscape”
  11. R.I.P. Skype!
  12. Spring has sprung

April 2025

  1. Antidote to modern times
  2. No Gruber, this is why Facebook renamed itself
  3. What ChatGPT Saw in My Handwriting
  4. Why Was Brad Feld Hibernating
  5. For VCs, Everything is AI. All Is AI
  6. A Questionable Transition into Summer
  7. China’s AI Experts Are Dying? Why?
  8. The Upside of Google, the SEO Cop
  9. So iPhone Worth More Than Samsung for Google?
  10. The End of the Paper Passport?
  11. Where did SF’s Homeless Go?
  12. What was Quartz?
  13. Meta Fudging Facts Again. This time about AI
  14. The Return of the Dire Wolf (or not)
  15. The Silent Collapse of Photo Licensing
  16. Telecom braces for “Tariff” Storm
  17. Why AI is at “Tariff” risk
  18. How Tariffs Impact Camera Prices
  19. A torpedo “bat” of innovation?

March 2025

  1. Why some people love AI and others don’t
  2. The Mediocrity of Modern Google
  3. What kind of an engineer are you?
  4. How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps
  5. When AI Whispers in Ink
  6. Why BlueSky is Winning
  7. Why Style Needs Consitency?
  8. Bijan on the blog again
  9. How to delete for 23andMe data & Test Sample
  10. SoftBank Acquires Ampere by ex-Intel Team for $6.5 billion
  11. Has Search Become Just a Feature?
  12. Who Shot This? An anonymous photographer who captured the 60s
  13. The Compounding Effects of AI and ensuing Economic Boom
  14. American Midwest Dreams of Making Chips
  15. Impact of Cardiovascular Diseases based on income
  16. Are we coming to a point of broadband saturation?
  17. BYD’s Big Battery Breakthrough
  18. Goodbye Torque. Hello TeraFLOPS!
  19. San Francisco Losing Its Youth
  20. The quiet AT&T technician who exposed the NSA’s secret internet tap has died
  21. Samsung wants AR to be a TV Remote
  22. Innovation, Not Litigation
  23. Ola Mobility has lost its charge
  24. How BYD is crushing Tesla
  25. My (New) Daily Blog
  26. RIP, Kevin Drum
  27. The World’s Most Invasive Apps
  28. Excellence doesn’t need a degree
  29. Why is Mars red?
  30. 2020 to 2025 how music has changed
  31. Instagram is now a (photo) information network.
  32. Apple Intelligence: Fud, Dud or Both
  33. Dollars and Cents of Spotify in 2024:
  34. The Billionaire Boycott Conundrum
  35. Apple’s Real Money (& Profit) Machine
  36. Ten Years Later
  37. [Early Impressions] the M4 MacBook Air
  38. Smart Home is an illusion

February 2025

  1. Skype is dead. What happened?
  2. What You See Is “Not” What You Get!
  3. AI, China & Copium
  4. Risk Aversion
  5. The Real Upside of DeepSeek: Cheaper Inference
  6. 1.5 Billion Broadband Connections

January 2025

  1. iPad at 15: Hit or a Miss?
  2. Why NotebookLM Matters
  3. The Weekend (Is Here) Reader
  4. Terminal Fever
  5. Vision Pro & Lessons of the MacBook Air
  6. Wait, is it 2025 already?
  7. Can AI reinvent biology?

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December 2024

  1. My Favorite Photos of 2024
  2. The Story of Stent
  3. Perception is reality.
  4. A Dog’s Life
  5. Musings on Media in the Age of AI
  6. Wah Ustad! Zakir Hussain’s Lasting Lessons
  7. What Really Matters: Memories
  8. Why AI will eat the browser
  9. California’s Top Broadband Cities

November 2024

  1. Wabi-Sabi of Vintage Digicams
  2. Robot(taxi)s Are Coming! No seriously!
  3. The Best “Digital City” in America is….
  4. Why IoT Failed & Can AI Fix It?
  5. [Weekend Edition] Field Notes
  6. Carl Sagan on Books
  7. Can We “SEO “AI?
  8. The End.
  9. Some Minimalist Views of Vietnam
  10. Is the (US) Internet Really Slowing?
  11. Ai, Big Tech, & Markets
  12. Content vs. Content
  13. Mute, Block, Breathe: How to deal with (un)Social Media
  14. Future of AR is in Your Ears
  15. How I Followed the Election Results
  16. (The Day After) Field Notes
  17. Why Carnegie’s Rules Are Evergreen
  18. Apple Intelligence’s Transcriptions Are Very Good
  19. Why Failure is the best teacher.
  20. Learn The Lesson, Leave the Event
  21. I Voted!

October 2024

  1. James Ledbetter, R.I.P.
  2. Good Ideas vs Mediocre Teams
  3. Our Unsocial Modern Times
  4. Humane has a plan for its AI-first Operating System
  5. Siri Sucks, Even By Apple’s Numbers
  6. The Problem with Podcasts
  7. Derek Jeter Still Manifesting Yankees Wins
  8. Waiting for Apple’s Intelligence
  9. What AI will do to the Internet?
  10. Minimalissimo, R.I.P.
  11. Are Kids Screenable?
  12. Pure Blogger
  13. Dave, Happy 30th Blog Birthday
  14. Meet My New Editorial Project

September 2024

  1. Lessons from MKBHD’s App Brouhaha
  2. The Camera Is In Control
  3. My Thoughts About Apple’s iPhone 16 “Glowtime” Event
  4. The iPhone Content Machine: A Visual Essay
  5. Jony Made a Button
  6. Out of Time
  7. A Letter From Om #4 (The End of Summer Edition)

August 2024

  1. Fogust is over
  2. Can Crypto, China cause Dollardrums?
  3. Big Tech’s LLM Bets is Trillion-Dollar Poker
  4. AI and Data Centers: What Do the Numbers Say?
  5. Field Notes, The Exabyte Edition
  6. For photos collages & crops, try Series
  7. Influencers, Media and Relevance
  8. Sometimes a review is not really a review
  9. AI Unicorns Are Running Amok
  10. That Time When Twitter CEO Said Smart Things
  11. Why Fixed Wireless is Stealing the Broadband Show
  12. Google’s Real Googly. No Not The Anti-Trust!
  13. Field Notes. 08.04.2024

July 2024

  1. Intermittent Social media fasting
  2. Climbing a Mountain on a Foggy Morning
  3. Musk, the Foxy Kingmaker
  4. Surely Microsoft Isn’t Blaming EU for Its Problems?
  5. What CrowdStrike teaches us about risks & resilience
  6. Google Is Mind-Bogglingly Bad
  7. Field Notes. 07.17.2024
  8. Social internet has ED
  9. Taboola + Apple News? No thanks
  10. Why FTC Needs to Rethink Tech Regulation
  11. Why (& How) IPL Could Save Test Cricket
  12. Field Notes 07.03.2024
  13. The Future of Writing: How AI Will Reshape Our Tools
  14. Individual vs AI: Why Personal Matters
  15. FCC (Finally) Has a Good Idea

June 2024

  1. A Letter From Om #3 (07.1.2024)
  2. Field Notes 06.26.2024
  3. AI Poetry Camera? Seriously?
  4. Why I love Underdogs
  5. Field Notes: June 23, 2024
  6. OpenAI Co-Founder Launches New Startup
  7. Los Angeles (Photo) Vibes
  8. Why Apple Should Support National Parks
  9. What’s Friendship
  10. Apple + AI: What to Expect at WWDC 2024
  11. End of Tech’s Easy Growth
  12. Baseball’s Gambling Hypocrisy
  13. This is the future of media with AI
  14. I have a beef with “content”

May 2024

  1. Fck
  2. AI Slop is the new spam!
  3. Silicon Valley’s Empathy Vacuum
  4. AI has an “Anus” Problem.
  5. A startup’s “tablet” gears up to take on Apple’s iPad
  6. How & Why of Introductions
  7. Interviewed: my creative process
  8. How OpenAI Stole Google’s Thunder
  9. The Age of AI Ambiguity
  10. Some Thoughts About The M4 Chip
  11. Subtle Magic of San Francisco.
  12. Apple (like big tech is) primed to stumble.
  13. Billions in profits, millions in fines!
  14. How “AI” is helping my writing process

April 2024

  1. AI Hardware is experimental & it’s okay!
  2. You are worth $47.
  3. Sometimes a camera is not just a camera!
  4. Lost Penguin
  5. Post(news) Script
  6. What I read this weekend
  7. China vs US: Social Media Edition
  8. I’m AirChatting
  9. A letter from Om #02/2024
  10. The Tyranny of Content Algorithms
  11. Why Yahoo bought Artifact’s leftovers
  12. Why Corporations Fail to Protect Our Data
  13. Obsessions vs Hobbies

March 2024

  1. Week 12, Project 365(+1) Recap
  2. Why are Easter eggs so expensive?
  3. Why Normal is NOT good
  4. Can EU be tough on China Inc?
  5. Week 11, Project 365(+1) Recap
  6. Weekend Leftovers: Good Reads & More
  7. Microsoft’s Brazen AI Inflection
  8. AI is changing writing
  9. Week 10, Project 365(+1) Recap
  10. VK One
  11. Old Tools, New Ideas
  12. Why I redesigned my home page?
  13. Why both Vision Pro & Quest are Good & Great?
  14. My most used apps have “AI” inside
  15. SVB Crisis: A Year Later
  16. Leica SL3: First Impressions
  17. Future, Civilization & Change
  18. Week 8, Project 365(+1) Recap

February 2024

  1. Week 7, Project 365(+1) Recap
  2. 5G is ‘ now’ eating cables lunch
  3. Reunited with Vision Pro
  4. Week 6 & 7, Project 365 (+1)
  5. Travel (Tech) Notes, Delhi Edition
  6. Cool tools to boost your browser
  7. In tech, magic becomes mundane!
  8. Week 5, Project 365 (+1)
  9. What does Vision Pro have in common with a T1 connection?

January 2024

  1. My 4 magic moments with Vision Pro
  2. Apple’s Vision Pro -The Meta-Review.
  3. Week 4, Project 365 (+1)
  4. The Real Problem With Spotify
  5. A Letter from Om Issue #01/2024
  6. Shattered Glass Of Modern Media
  7. Pitchfork & The Death of the critic
  8. Bell Labs & Google: bookends of the same sad story?
  9. Week 3, Project 365 Wrap Up
  10. A New Vision (Pro) Day
  11. RIP, Internet’s Time Lord
  12. Vision Pro’s Long Shadow Over A Boring CES 2024
  13. Why Words Matter
  14. Week 2, 366 Project Wrap Up
  15. Why Platforms Do Platform Things
  16. Happy Birthday Matt
  17. I want my Vision Pro(TV)!
  18. Week 1/366 Photo Project
  19. The Greatest Gift is Time
  20. Facebook’s new old way to follow you around!
  21. Jim Courtney, RIP
  22. Is Optimism Wired or Tired?
  23. Canceled Streams
  24. A New Year. A New 365 “Photo” Project.

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December 2023

  1. Goodbye, 2023. Hello, 2024.
  2. A Letter from Om. Issue #17/2023
  3. Second Chances
  4. New Episode: Stuck@Om Podcast: The GeoPolitical Implications of A.I. a discussion w/scientist Sean Gourley
  5. New Episode of Stuck@Om: The Reality of Self-Driving Dreams
  6. Implications of the failure of the Adobe-Figma deal.
  7. What do French artists, Wright Brothers & AI have in common?
  8. 10 Quick Last-Minute Gift Ideas
  9. Why Vision Pro Will Change Photography
  10. So What’s The Latest with Apple’s VisionPro?
  11. The Reality of AI: Vanishing White Collar Jobs
  12. 14 years of Uber
  13. Nosocomial
  14. Apple Makes a Quiet AI Move
  15. Finding Beauty in the Ordinary
  16. A Letter from Om. Issue #16/2023

November 2023

  1. Framed
  2. Nostalgia is a curse in life and tech.
  3. Charlie Munger & Social Theater
  4. Amazon’s Thin Client: Wrong Idea, Wrong Time. Here’s Why.
  5. Black Friday Musings: Internet’s Scale + 5 Good Reads
  6. OpenAI drama is over.
  7. Even After Freaky Friday, Microsoft is Still the AI King
  8. My Creative Process [Podcast]
  9. A letter from Om. Issue #15/2023
  10. Foundational Risks of OpenAI
  11. A Fixed Wireless Boom 20 Years In The Making
  12. A Visvim in my backyard?
  13. Happy Diwali
  14. Imran Chaudhri
  15. The Real Personal (AI) Computer
  16. My Quick M3 Macbook Review
  17. I was on FullStackWhatever Podcast.
  18. A letter from Om. Issue #14/2023
  19. Hope is the ultimate drug.
  20. SBF Saga & “The Process” Breakdown
  21. Still Waters

October 2023

  1. With its New M3 Chips, Apple joins the AI party.
  2. iPoddery
  3. A Lovely October Evening
  4. Spinning Memories
  5. Today’s Reading List
  6. For kids, Social Media is kaput.
  7. A letter from Om. Issue #13/2023
  8. Social Internet Is Dead. Get Over It.
  9. A Game of Cricket, A Friendship Remembered
  10. The Magic of iPhone 15’s Zoom
  11. A Perfect Morning Drive
  12. What Would Steve Jobs Have Thought of Our Industry Now?

September 2023

  1. The Symphony of Nature’s Gradients
  2. Apple’s Launch Events: A Scripted Symphony?
  3. ChatGPT & Friends: The Cool Kids boosting my productivity
  4. Jet Lag and the Joy of Being Offline
  5. A letter from Om. Issue #12/2023
  6. Why do companies become hostile to their customers?

August 2023

  1. From My iPhone
  2. Threads, Twitter, & Social Photos
  3. Field Notes
  4. Why Camera Makers Will Be Dead (Soonish)
  5. How do we fix the “Too Many Newsletters” problem?
  6. Dark side of the moon + 5 good reads
  7. What I am Reading Today
  8. The Land of Imperfect Data.
  9. A Letter from Om. Issue #11/2023
  10. Baby Gull 2.0
  11. My American Life
  12. Time For Rentry
  13. Fine Fogust Finds
  14. A Letter from Om. Issue #10/2023

July 2023

  1. What’s the Truth?
  2. With X, it is Twitter R.I.P!
  3. AI & Internet’s Existential Crisis
  4. A Letter from Om. Issue #09/2023
  5. Grid Storage vs Transmission: Will Batteries Win?
  6. You don’t need AI to understand the universe
  7. Zuck Threads The Needle, Pricks Musk
  8. Lasers Light Up Sutro Tower
  9. My top 5 articles for 2023 (so far)
  10. A New Podcast: Me & Brunello Cucinelli
  11. Happy July 4th
  12. Ethernet is 50
  13. A letter from Om Issue #08/2023

June 2023

  1. Like everything, data, too, needs power & water.
  2. AI Hype: Smoke and Mirrors
  3. Why Apple’s Vision Pro Will Change Movie-Watching
  4. On the Beach with Leica M9
  5. Arnold’s Docuseries: A Case Study in Online Content Pollution
  6. Is AI a snake that eats itself?
  7. Why Elon isn’t paying his bills?
  8. Why I love MacWhisper
  9. The Weekend Reader
  10. It’s getting hotter out there.
  11. Cord Cutting Doom Loop
  12. A letter from Om Issue #07/2023
  13. How do humans spend their “day?”
  14. Lessons to learn from Cormac McCarthy
  15. The Why of Reddit Protests
  16. Did Apple Watch save the Swiss Watch Industry?
  17. 7 Good Links
  18. Of Media & Monsters
  19. Hot or Not: Our Dystopian Vision
  20. My ten takeaways from WWDC 2023
  21. Your Weekend AI Reader
  22. In Search of Shadows
  23. The Why of Apple XR Headset
  24. A Letter from Om Issue #06/2023

May 2023

  1. Ben Smith’s Traffic
  2. Reflections of New York
  3. Wow, WordPress is 20
  4. The Number of Songs Uploaded Every Day Will Shock You
  5. What’s wrong with Leica Q3
  6. The Musk of a Fox
  7. The context of time
  8. Resale
  9. The Musky Fox
  10. A Letter from Om. Issue #05/2023
  11. The Future of Fast Food
  12. Substack Spam
  13. A Good Teacher
  14. Just A Little Longer
  15. Global Broadband Still Growing. Just Slower
  16. Random Thoughts While I Was Away

April 2023

  1. Springbreak
  2. This is the future of media
  3. A trillion streams!
  4. The House that Curry Built
  5. Wait what? Even millennials don’t like algorithms
  6. Why Media Can’t Quit Twitter
  7. A letter from Om, issue #4/2023
  8. Moore on Moore’s Law

March 2023

  1. Photography’s future is software & computation
  2. Two Decades Later
  3. Putting some AI in an Oasis
  4. Amazon shuts down DPReview
  5. On social, it’s a fine line between idiot & genius
  6. So much AI, so little time!
  7. SVB, a week later
  8. Permanent Elegance of NY’s Flatiron Building
  9. A Letter from Om, Issue #3/2023
  10. Kottke turns 25
  11. Streaks of Gold
  12. Yellen offers (some) clarity on SVB
  13. A Tough Weekend
  14. ChatGPT is here! Now what?
  15. San Francisco is brooding
  16. What about AI?
  17. A Letter from Om. Issue #02/2023

February 2023

  1. Writing Shouldn’t Be Hard
  2. The Gigabit Generation
  3. An Alaskan Sojourn
  4. Just say no!
  5. I was skimming through my photo library…
  6. Sweet Streams are made of this
  7. Surfing in Alaska!
  8. Podcast Overload
  9. Plover Ahead
  10. Does Google need a new CEO?
  11. A landscape photography adventure with Leica M…
  12. A bit of weekend reading
  13. The Best of 2022
  14. The Why of Tech Layoffs
  15. A Letter from Om. Issue #01/2023
  16. How Spotify is changing dance music

January 2023

  1. Big Emps, Low Temps!
  2. WiFi is super fast on 2023 Macbook Pros
  3. Glacier’s Edge
  4. Scenes from Winter Wonderlands
  5. Is “stream” as a design paradigm over?
  6. The Smartphone Megapixel Race!
  7. Apple launches new (M2) chips
  8. Trip down the memory lane
  9. Not so open, OpenAI
  10. Tough Start to 2023
  11. Love What You Do
  12. Why internet silos win
  13. (Mis)adventures in flying

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December 2022

  1. Goodbye, 2022. Hello, 2023.
  2. In 2022, my visual vocabulary found appreciation…
  3. Sometimes a shoe is not just a shoe
  4. What we don’t say in Silicon Valley anymore
  5. A December Note
  6. Will ChatGPT kill search & software + a few good reads
  7. Sometimes an ATV isn’t an ATV
  8. The (Positive) Energy of Fusion
  9. Bully doing bullying
  10. Why Context Matters
  11. Winter is coming
  12. Disney Minus
  13. Goodbye Spotify

November 2022

  1. Aerial magic with iPhone 14 Pro
  2. Musk overload
  3. What I am reading today
  4. TikTok & The Tiny Tune Trend
  5. What’s Worth Reading: Thanksgiving Weekend Edition
  6. How FTX built a house of cards
  7. In My Newsletter I Trust
  8. Reflections!
  9. In Good Times, FOMO beats Diligence
  10. A very misty weekend
  11. Why snow loves the trees
  12. Adobe's Future Adobe has to embrace AI…

October 2022

  1. Augmenting (our) Intelligence
  2. A Salty Dreamscape
  3. So is the On Demand Economy Dead?
  4. The Forever Immigrant Challenge
  5. Who’s Streaming’s Top of The Pops?
  6. Lana has lost her drive
  7. TikTok, New York Times, Charlatans & the Nobel Prizes
  8. The why of photography
  9. Weathergraph
  10. Of Monsters & Media
  11. Delhi Minimal
  12. You Got No Mail (aka Bulletin)
  13. My Verizon + Apple eSIM Problem
  14. Recovery Mode
  15. October 2022: A Personal Update + Some Good Reads

September 2022

  1. The joy of paper
  2. The sorry state of the web
  3. What do sensors know?
  4. A dummy’s guide to killing a golden goose
  5. Why (and how) of blogging
  6. Some thoughts on the 2022 MacBook Air
  7. Cool Gray City, Take Two

August 2022

  1. Apple’s missing “augmented” intelligence
  2. Apple’s Golden Noose
  3. There is no “social” in “social media”
  4. My Cool Gray City of Love
  5. One needs ‘Social Silence’
  6. Happy 75th Independence Day, India
  7. AirTags: what are they good for?
  8. [Video] Bill Gurley on Surviving Downturns
  9. A final goodbye
  10. Silence
  11. In Beyoncé we trust?
  12. A rough, sleepless night
  13. One night in Iceland

July 2022

  1. A (personal) midsummer update
  2. The problem with Facebook
  3. Why Kylie is mad at Instagram?
  4. When the birds go home
  5. Mark Vanhoenacker’s new book
  6. The future of tech as I see it
  7. An Icelandic Friend
  8. The Weight Of Creativity
  9. Instagram is dead
  10. Broken Fences
  11. Air travel
  12. Is writing a contact sport?

June 2022

  1. 36 hours in Porto
  2. Some Observations on WWDC 2022

May 2022

  1. Garbage
  2. Surveillance
  3. A new lick of paint
  4. Everyone (including Elon) wants a better deal

April 2022

  1. Form vs. Meaning
  2. Bully Pulpit
  3. Flow
  4. So who else can buy Twitter?
  5. Musk or Not, Twitter CEO Needs To Go
  6. What is the future of social media?
  7. 04.06.2022 Musings
  8. 04.04.2023 Musings
  9. Slow Horses

March 2022

  1. Boostered Break
  2. Happy Piano Day
  3. Are the Oscars over?
  4. Internet Waypoints
  5. The Password Defense
  6. Old Processes vs. New Behaviors
  7. What snow reveals
  8. “The Great Resignation” is Clickbait
  9. Why Camera isn’t just a camera
  10. The (Elk) Refuge
  11. Past, Present & Future of Deep Neural Nets
  12. Community Saves the World?
  13. Cursed by Information (Overload)
  14. It’s (always) the camera, stupid
  15. This is how the world ends

February 2022

  1. Who’s Reading Anyway
  2. President’s Day
  3. Why Spotify bought Chartable & Podsights
  4. Looking back at my week
  5. Who do you want to be?
  6. Lata Mangeshkar, RIP
  7. Trust & Very Personal Computing
  8. The Metaverse Reader
  9. The Daily Om: 02.01.2022
  10. The age of very personal computing

January 2022

  1. Photoday: 01.30.2022
  2. Photoday: 01.29.2022
  3. Photoday: 01.28.2022
  4. Photoday:01.27.2022
  5. PhoToday
  6. Everyone Loves Wordle! Why?
  7. What’s the difference between USB 4.0 & Thunderbolt 4.0
  8. Can we ever become Post-Social?
  9. iPhone & its impact on mobile
  10. Supercloud: What is it?
  11. Facebook’s Role in Capitol Attacks
  12. Reflecting!
  13. Tourists vs Purists
  14. Happy New Year

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December 2021

  1. Broadband & Internet is Growing Everywhere
  2. #14
  3. Happy Holidays
  4. The Newest Variant
  5. What’s on my Spotify 2021 list?
  6. Re-entry

November 2021

  1. Offline
  2. A good place to work
  3. How important is “now”
  4. On Twitter we are all cops
  5. A quiet foggy morning over Lake Merced
  6. Learning to Drive
  7. Twitter Blue
  8. That Boat in the Bay
  9. Happy Fountain Pen Day
  10. Odds-on

October 2021

  1. MetaJob
  2. iPod: 20 Years Later
  3. Azeem’s Exponential Views
  4. Sitting In Place
  5. 10 years later
  6. Yet another birthday

September 2021

  1. A view with a bridge
  2. Remains of the Tweek
  3. The iPad Mini (2021) Review
  4. Of all the iPhone(s) 13, Pro seems to be perfect.
  5. Capitalism is about discontent
  6. A Very Foggy Tweek
  7. Ambition has failed us.
  8. VC business is nuts
  9. Why are tech stocks are so expensive?
  10. Van Gogh of Typewriter Art
  11. September

August 2021

  1. Unicorn to Unicorny
  2. A Transactional Society
  3. The Why of Newsletters
  4. Spotify’s uncertain future
  5. The Perils of Data Categorization
  6. 10 years ago
  7. My Tweek That Was
  8. Gone in 60 minutes
  9. Will Spotify become Facebook of streaming?
  10. A Tinker Tailor Sunday
  11. Magic Keyboard w/TouchID: is it worth it?
  12. So why is SpaceX buying Swarm?
  13. Why something is rotten in the creator economy
  14. GLASS’ Tom Watson
  15. Analog Pens, Apple’s Pencil & Talking Machines: writing & its future
  16. Leaf
  17. Covid & its unseen effects
  18. Where did the words go?
  19. Out of water
  20. The Sad Truth of Buy Now Pay Later Services
  21. How Gambling Swallowed Sports Media
  22. The 31-day challenge
  23. What’s so great about summer?

July 2021

  1. How does it make you feel?
  2. What does the Internet & Zoom have to do with Nam June Paik?
  3. Why handwriting is good for learning
  4. What the heck is The Hundred? Should…
  5. What goes before wisdom?
  6. An unusual week
  7. Hey Boy (Drama Remix)
  8. 15 years on Twitter
  9. Startups & the funding (news) question
  10. Vinyl Conundrum + other notables
  11. Ken Kocienda
  12. 40 kilometers later
  13. Alaska on my mind
  14. Tweek: Recap of my week on Twitter
  15. 30 years since that first GSM call
  16. I was on AppleInsider Podcast

June 2021

  1. Synchronicity
  2. Yellowstone & Climate Change
  3. What (a) Disaster
  4. The Devils You Don’t Know
  5. Happy 50th, SouthWest
  6. Janet Malcolm on writing, journalism
  7. 06.19.2021: The Tweek That Was
  8. Reopening Day
  9. Tweek: recap of my week on Twitter
  10. Five Photography Tips Worth Remembering
  11. Future of Media – a quick reality check

May 2021

  1. Mallmann, Oh Man!
  2. Some Changes
  3. The Paradigm Shift
  4. Why AI will never write a great song
  5. Music for India, a concert for COVID Relief in India
  6. The Long Arc of Time
  7. Google AMP is dead
  8. Weapons of mass (value) destruction
  9. Top 10 crime movies (based on crime novels)
  10. Shapes of San Francisco
  11. Thinking about the new iPad
  12. AirTags: What Are They Good For?
  13. Patek Philippe vs Apple Watch
  14. The real attention crisis
  15. Twitter Scrolls
  16. How to help with India’s COVID-19 Crisis?

April 2021

  1. Why handwriting beats typing
  2. The Civil War of Haircuts?
  3. India’s Coronavirus Crisis
  4. Warzel’s Brain
  5. Can Stem Cells Save Food?
  6. Walking Among The Giants
  7. Apple’s new hardware is built for our visual future
  8. Taking a break
  9. 10 notable tech things
  10. Bandcamp vs Streaming
  11. 3 Good Reads (for today)
  12. The Wrong Kind of Splash

March 2021

  1. 1997-2021: How the Internet has grown.
  2. Mick Herron’s Slough House
  3. The Battle of Thacker Pass
  4. Nitin Sawhney
  5. How Apple Watch Got Its Faces
  6. Lone Surfer: the story of one photo.
  7. 5 Good Reads
  8. Starlink on wheels, ships, and planes
  9. HEY World makes what’s old new again with blogging.
  10. What is Emotive Industrial Design?
  11. Is Tidal worth Jack?
  12. What’s in a name? Sometimes everything.
  13. The M1 effect on Mac resale prices

February 2021

  1. The Death of a Retailer
  2. Shared (un)Realities
  3. A rainy day (photo) walk
  4. The Texas Cold Snap
  5. SPACtaculor?
  6. Podcasts had a bumper 2020
  7. The (present) state of Starlink’s network
  8. Why the Solarwinds hack is worse than you think
  9. The how & why of Jeff Bezos’ exit from Amazon
  10. iPhone vs Camera: No Contest
  11. Human Genome Sequencing: 20 years later
  12. Horsing Around
  13. What is the definition of a friend?
  14. Inside a COVID Ward
  15. An Amazonian Transition
  16. Google Maps’ moat is evaporating
  17. 5,000 words on why webcams suck
  18. Foxconn’s Rise and Labor’s Fall in China

January 2021

  1. A memo to myself
  2. Living in the sentiment reality
  3. Too much Internet?
  4. Bitcoin at $100,000?
  5. Twitter vs Substack
  6. Is this meme dead yet?
  7. Free Speech Chokepoints
  8. Short Strategic Retreat
  9. Bitcoin has lost that loving feeling
  10. Apple’s Monolithic Moment
  11. Tech & the American Crisis
  12. Sunset in Pacifica, CA.
  13. The Day After
  14. I am a billionaire. Please love me
  15. Zoomification of everything
  16. A foggy start to the new year
  17. Resolutions vs Digital Reset
  18. Chill New Year Weekend
  19. Photos By Om Newsletter

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December 2020

  1. Longest Read for the longest year
  2. #13
  3. ProRaw and the Gradual Gradation of Grays
  4. Is America in decline?
  5. 12.22.2020
  6. Who else is not leaving San Francisco
  7. Our sadness is really selfishness
  8. A visual re-interpretation of self
  9. Hard goodbye to M1 MacBook
  10. My advice to the attorneys general: It’s not about Zuck
  11. The great white hope of media
  12. What Twitter Can Learn From Spotify
  13. The Truth about M1 MacBooks
  14. Something about Slack (+ Salesforce)

November 2020

  1. Indian Coffee
  2. Tony Hsieh, RIP
  3. Field Notes: 11.27.2020
  4. Why we are underestimating Zoom & it’s impact?
  5. On (not) leaving San Francisco
  6. Worthy Five
  7. Sunday Musings
  8. Yes, I love SF, but…
  9. Steve Jobs’s last gambit: Apple’s M1 Chip
  10. Is it time to SoC the CPU?
  11. My Shortish M1-based MacBook Pro 13-inch review
  12. How to turn iPhone into a Nintendo Switch
  13. Happy Diwali
  14. Parents
  15. Books! Books! Books!
  16. The Brouhaha over Google Photos
  17. QVC 2.0
  18. My notes on Apple’s M1 Chip
  19. What I am reading today
  20. Field Notes: 11.09.2020
  21. 15 Years on WordPress.com
  22. Relaxing the Little Grey Cells
  23. Why Bother with Film
  24. The Need for (Gigabit) Speed
  25. Vote
  26. Deer in the mist
  27. Change is a threat
  28. Dept. of Corections

October 2020

  1. Thinking About Apple One
  2. Incoherence
  3. Droppings
  4. Changing Mission
  5. Why great design is timeless
  6. Don’t be surprised that Quibi failed
  7. Infatuation
  8. 3 Good Reads
  9. Poor Comms…
  10. Some news today
  11. Sorry (State of) Siri
  12. The New Medium
  13. 3 Good Reads
  14. Pandemic Silence
  15. Pandemic will change money
  16. 7 Sunday Reads
  17. America in decline?
  18. Talking Apple Watch on Hodinkee Podcast
  19. Still thinking about Steve
  20. Our October Symphony
  21. The future of movie theaters is in your face!

September 2020

  1. In the air tonight
  2. Future is for kids
  3. #205
  4. A bridge in the fog.
  5. Apple Watch’s Sensory Overload
  6. Getting Smoked in San Francisco
  7. What remains in the AI age!
  8. All About Reviews & Referrals
  9. No TikTok For You
  10. San Francisco under a shroud
  11. In Convenience We Trust
  12. This is not a movie
  13. A Buffett of Snowflake
  14. Faster & faster it goes as the seasons’ change
  15. How I stay sane in 2020
  16. Homestead
  17. Unmasking the Wirecard fraud
  18. Rethinking Care
  19. Good advice from Ansel Adams
  20. Windows 95 & the Web made each other a hit

August 2020

  1. Forget what, where is the news?
  2. Yelp! No Help!
  3. The Sound of Someone Leaving
  4. Let’s hang by the Poolside
  5. From a distance
  6. Why the shift to online commerce is here to stay
  7. Home Alone
  8. Why United States Political Shitshow (USPS) is far from over
  9. Where did Mac’s Resale Value Go
  10. Is Las Vegas a Super Spreader?
  11. Future Shocked
  12. The Baby Gull
  13. What’s Worth Reading
  14. Covid-19 vs Past Pandemics
  15. Surface Duo or DuOh?
  16. An elephant’s 1700-mile pandemic trip
  17. It all feels so mundane
  18. Utah is a winter dream
  19. What is worth reading this weekend
  20. Imagined Landscapes
  21. What do Instagram & TikTok have to do with Asparagus?
  22. Pete Hamill, RIP
  23. Cooking the books
  24. HomePod as a speakerphone
  25. Ansel Adams & looking from mind’s eye
  26. Microsoft’s TikTok: But why?
  27. Social media’s out of control growth

July 2020

  1. Write like a human
  2. Why Tech CEOs in DC is a waste of time
  3. Silence Please
  4. Hero, Hub & Help: How to be an online brand
  5. Signals: The Pandemic Edition
  6. No Newsletter This Weekend
  7. The Essayist
  8. Best Instant Noodles are not on this list
  9. Is it still 2020?
  10. 21 weeks
  11. Give AirPods Pro A Boost
  12. It all started with a single tweet
  13. Netflix is (almost) doing the right thing
  14. More than just a Twitter hack
  15. Big Tech is big in Japan (& everywhere except China)
  16. Podcast Reality Check (by the numbers)
  17. The illusion of improving social media platforms
  18. Pocket Premium is crowd favorite
  19. A quick (and good) update on parents
  20. In praise of Feedbin
  21. Living inside patchwork Future
  22. Conflict Culture is making social Unsocial
  23. Oh hello, it is July 4 already
  24. Time redefines our horizons
  25. The Pain of Distance
  26. From writer to a professional poker player. A Stuck@Om chat with best selling author, Maria Konnikova

June 2020

  1. Why Microsoft had to close its retail stores
  2. Omakase Now
  3. The antithesis of streaming music
  4. Social distancing takes many tolls.
  5. Can we try and be silent?
  6. [PODCAST] Is the stock market making you nervous? Listen to Ophir Gottlieb, on how to think about the future & investing.
  7. Today, Someday, Any Day
  8. How to be happy
  9. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs
  10. [Podcast] Stuck@Om with Author, Economist & Columbia School Professor Jeffrey Sachs
  11. Worth Reading
  12. Dhoni’s Chaku
  13. In fog, a peak hides…
  14. Upside down
  15. Dropbox is a total mess
  16. Tech and the inevitable unintended consequences
  17. Napster’s long-arm & the unbundling of content
  18. Has pandemic pushed us into a post-human future?
  19. Facebook’s flawed leader
  20. In Sadie’s Footsteps
  21. Algorithmic discovery of music lacks emotional appeal
  22. Do American Values include “life”?
  23. A lovely morning in San Francisco
  24. [06.08.2020] Daily Notes
  25. What’s going on with the stock markets? A Stuck@Om chat with Investment Guru Barry Ritholtz
  26. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (of Technology)
  27. Pandemic’s impact in data
  28. At the end of the land
  29. 97 days later
  30. Make America Love Again
  31. Why don’t we listen
  32. Leave Facebook

May 2020

  1. Sadness
  2. Spotify and the fight for attention
  3. [Book Review] Trace Elements by Donna Leon
  4. What really is time in the time of pandemic
  5. Global Food: Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Remix?
  6. Weird dreams are made of Chicken?
  7. Why every tech downturn has a silver lining
  8. Streaking
  9. Real reasons why tech giants are hugging “Remote Work”
  10. [Podcast] Stuck@Om w/Wired Editor Nick Thompson on the pandemic, its impact on technology and change + why we mistrust media
  11. Watch This: A chat w/ Clubhouse co-founder Paul Davison from his Highlight days
  12. [05.20.20] Signals
  13. Is Shopify ready to be double-crossed by Facebook?
  14. Unicornonsense
  15. [05.18.2020] Signals
  16. Light is a reaction to darkness
  17. 80 Days
  18. Stuck@Om with Herman Narula
  19. Visual memories of Venice.
  20. Return of the old fashioned
  21. Why Skype lost to Zoom
  22. Why do social networks focus on the wrong problem?
  23. Fast Forwarding the future of ecommerce
  24. Five stages of Zoom
  25. OMakase Pick: Todd Snyder Menswear
  26. Productivity: what is it good for?
  27. SuperMoon Rises
  28. Stuck@Om with Scott Belsky
  29. Snowstorm
  30. Unseen is what fuels the imagination
  31. The inevitable has happened.

April 2020

  1. [Podcast] Stuck @Om with New York Times’ John Markoff
  2. Spotify is really the new radio
  3. Wait! Rakuten bought Marie Kondo?
  4. [Podcast] Stuck@Om with Toby Ord, author of The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity.
  5. Away from keyboard
  6. Stuck@Om with Matt Mullenweg
  7. Reinterpretation (of self)
  8. [04.24.2020] SIGNALS
  9. The New New Working From Home Set-Up
  10. My WFH Essentials
  11. Currently Enjoying
  12. Happy Earth Day
  13. Start of a new photo adventure
  14. Hey HEY
  15. This made me very sad
  16. [PODCAST] Stuck@Om with Jason Fried
  17. Upside of Constraints
  18. 50 2
  19. [Podcast] Stuck@Om with Paul Kedrosky
  20. #47
  21. On Panic with Friends by Howard Lindzon
  22. Adventures in standing in place
  23. My Morning Speeds vs Evening Speeds
  24. My coffee of choice today
  25. [04.13.2020] Signals
  26. Dirty Dozen Con Jobs (Movies)
  27. The Art of Stillness
  28. Why we need to rethink how to support music (and creativity)
  29. [Podcast] Stuck @Om With Reilly Brennan
  30. My contrarian view on Airbnb
  31. Guilty Pleasures
  32. [Photo Set] Yet another walk down Embarcadero (in SF)
  33. [Podcast] Stuck@Om with Matt Buchanan
  34. Almost still waters
  35. [04.07.2020] Signals
  36. Yet Another Monday in Pandemic
  37. When Buying Medical Supplies from China…
  38. [Photos] Kind’a’Blue
  39. America 2.0

March 2020

  1. [Podcast] Stuck@Om with Anne Dwane, Village Global
  2. 10 random little joys of the Internet
  3. Have a Moment. Look inwards.
  4. [Photo] Stop.
  5. [Podcast] Stuck@Om with Bijan Sabet, Spark Capital
  6. Humans, we don’t control much
  7. Zoom, Zelfies, and Physical Distancing
  8. Doctors-Only Chat is live.
  9. [Photo] A walk along the Embarcadero
  10. At home we work: Some thoughts on working from home and remote work
  11. Sunday
  12. 03.22.2020: Worth Reading
  13. Dealing with not knowing
  14. Invisible
  15. Live Blog: Stay smart with good reads about the Covid-19 Pandemic
  16. Doctors, Desperately Seeking: a robust chat app to share information to fight the pandemic
  17. San Francisco skyline on a cold, windy evening
  18. Lies cost lives
  19. Why do you have to share
  20. Living with viral anxiety
  21. Can you trust anything on Instagram?
  22. Coronavirus Pandemic: Notable & Smart Reads
  23. Some landscapes from around town
  24. Telescope Peak, Death Valley National Park
  25. Do hand sanitizers help prevent infections?
  26. The Silver Lining of Self-Quarantine
  27. The Devil’s Golf Course
  28. Why the New new works
  29. Dunes & Curves
  30. From Earth to Sky
  31. Daily photo blogging
  32. The Tallest Mountain in America*

February 2020

  1. Light on the leaves
  2. Dunes of Death Valley: a very personal interpretation
  3. 7 New Smart Phone Trends
  4. FaceTime with Tech’s Dual Reality
  5. From Death Valley to Silicon Valley
  6. Till the cows come home
  7. What really matters
  8. Iceland in Monochrome
  9. Protocol is live
  10. Jeff Weiner, the Next Disney CEO?
  11. Steve Tidball of Vollebak on the Future of Clothing & Exotic Materials
  12. Only the Good People

January 2020

  1. MacBook Pro 16 Has a Fan Problem
  2. Chris Michel, in front of the camera
  3. Elodie
  4. How I store my (digital) photos
  5. Made with Over
  6. iPad at 10. An affair forever
  7. In shadows, we exist
  8. 10 Tech Reads Today
  9. Where mountains meet the desert
  10. Lessons of Derek Jeter’s hall of fame career
  11. Snow, Trees, Fields & Winter
  12. Judging Catchlight Visual Fellowship
  13. [Podcast] Interviewing Matt Mullenweg
  14. [Series] Scenes of San Francisco
  15. Just get paid & our culture of lies
  16. The moral hazard of finger-pointing
  17. Happy Birthday PhotoMatt
  18. [Photo Set] Around San Francisco
  19. Y2K? It is more like Y2020 Bug
  20. What’s Worth Reading (today)
  21. So that’s the difference between AirPods and AirPods Pro!
  22. Apple & Steve Jobs defined mobile in the 2010s
  23. [Photo Set] Foggy in Porto
  24. A Decade of Self-Control

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December 2019

  1. Best of the 2010s: Some of my favorite pieces from the last ten years
  2. Why do Puffins have big beaks?
  3. No more 8tracks
  4. ReBirthday No. 12
  5. 2019: My visual journey
  6. Why we need to feel the photos
  7. 7 Sins of remote meetings
  8. The most important OS is….?
  9. Failure is part of learning
  10. What makes a good magazine editor?
  11. China’s new AI-powered justice future
  12. Brand Dead
  13. Phone Cameras FTW
  14. Why Virtual Reality Devices need to grow up
  15. Foggy Illusions
  16. Houston Astros, Enron, and The McKinsey Way
  17. Larry, Sergey, and the art of corporate treason
  18. Utah native’s ode to snowy landscapes
  19. 10,000 what?
  20. Spotify Wrapped: Data Story Done Right
  21. [07.12.2019] What to read this weekend
  22. Less Twitter
  23. [Photos] Catalina, the island, not the macOS
  24. A frame of mind

November 2019

  1. Mick Herron Books, & Night Rains in San Francisco
  2. Jason Fried on the Future of Work, 13 years later
  3. Adventures with Leica SL2 & a vintage Noctilux lens
  4. The Kon Job
  5. We(don’t)Work
  6. Grifters & the modern web of experts
  7. MacBook Pro 16-inch: Bigger is just bigger.
  8. How to blog today
  9. Road Ra(n)ge
  10. Friends doing well makes me happy
  11. On Hodinkee Podcast (again)
  12. The State of Galileo
  13. Why Elon Musk & SpaceX badly need Starlink
  14. Some thoughts on iPassword funding + How to do strong passwords
  15. Venice & Climate Change
  16. On tech-enabled labor arbitrage
  17. Daniel Patterson: behind the mask
  18. Ford vs. Ferrari (Le Mans 66) Review: Fast & Fantastic.
  19. Awesome. Actually not so Awesome
  20. In Silicon Valley, Hypocrisy is the new normal
  21. [Photo Gallery] Tokyo captured on Leica SL2
  22. Some thoughts on Leica SL2
  23. What you really love
  24. Meeting Michael Kenna
  25. Venice under the fog
  26. GrubSnub & what’s really wrong with Gig Economy
  27. November Writing Challenge
  28. How to murder a website: Deadspin Edition

October 2019

  1. Dancers & their AirPods Pros
  2. For the Internet​, it started with a “lo” 50 years ago today
  3. Are Pro AirPods worth the cost?
  4. Serenity of ​a Skyline
  5. California is so stupid
  6. Happy Diwali
  7. Facebook’s media farce
  8. The Quantum Computing Breakthrough + Other Nonsense
  9. Harold Robbins
  10. Weekend
  11. Zimmerman’s Law: Data & its corrupting influence
  12. Breakthrough will help keep making smaller, smarter phones
  13. Next up, wireless buds to unlock your smartphone
  14. Don’t believe the 5G hype
  15. Climate Neutral
  16. Look what NASA has cooking
  17. Tracking Flu Online
  18. Files, R.I.P.
  19. Global Map of the Internet
  20. Oh Annie
  21. Google’s new smart home strategy, explained
  22. (MacOS) Catalina Crisis
  23. Marc Benioff on Why We Need New Capitalism
  24. Big Tech & people: a complicated relationship of convenience
  25. What to read this weekend
  26. Lighthouses
  27. Bags on the Internet
  28. Our Collective Chinese Conundrum​
  29. Scientists behind Lithium-ion​ battery tech get a Nobel price​
  30. California’s Power Outages Explained
  31. Social Media, Propaganda and War
  32. Pedaling back
  33. In India, no Onion left behind
  34. Delhipolis
  35. The Why of (my) Photography
  36. How to lengthen your phone’s battery life
  37. When Doves Smile
  38. Letting Go of Expectations
  39. Patience & photography
  40. Hipstamatic Returns. Why you should try it?

September 2019

  1. 53
  2. Gladwell’s catchphrase factory has shut down
  3. Planet vs Nations
  4. Words without impact are just noise
  5. Headline hyperbole & articles without info
  6. Talking to my iPhone 11 Pro
  7. WeWork drama, Streaming wars, & What (else) to read
  8. Really long running TV series are a dying breed
  9. No, not Santa Monica
  10. Psst… wanna buy an igloo hotel?
  11. My piece in Wired about A13 Bionic
  12. Salesforce invests in Automattic
  13. Moats & Competiton
  14. Hodinkee on Apple Watch 5
  15. Can we please stop the unicornonsense?
  16. Charlie Warzel of NY Times vs John Gruber
  17. Why do we photograph?
  18. Taxing Personal Data
  19. The Consumerism Curse
  20. This is why we love sports
  21. What to read this weekend
  22. Snap & Climate Change: Is there a link?
  23. A new (tech) front in US-China​ Trade war?
  24. The noise of the Square Card Reader
  25. The Jony Triptych​
  26. On True’s Computational Biology investments
  27. Dreamcast failed, but gave gaming new dreams to dream
  28. Space is running out of space ;-)
  29. Tesla’s SolarCity gamble has gone wrong
  30. Just another today
  31. How long will Apple’s mad science edge last?
  32. Even FDA calls B.S. on Juul
  33. RIP, Robert Frank who gave us “The Americans”
  34. What comes after after Free Solo
  35. Again, Camera Phones FTW
  36. Smartwatch Sales Are Booming
  37. And Braun Audio is back
  38. Technology is Humane. Or is it?
  39. If we can’t trust Apple, who can we trust?
  40. Your daily mOMent of zen
  41. Weekend Reads
  42. Kickshitter
  43. Bridge, Bay & Light
  44. An AI to save cats
  45. Coming soon: a device that harvests water in a desert
  46. DeYoung Delight
  47. Dorian almost drowns the ​Bahamas
  48. Reasons to be cheerful
  49. Featured on Leica’s Instagram
  50. Dave Winer on Inside Bill’s Brain

August 2019

  1. Exaltation of self
  2. The Weekend
  3. Why Hadoop’s time has come and gone
  4. New Collaboration with Dsptch SF
  5. Venice At Night
  6. Peak Influencer?
  7. Some Changes
  8. Cord Cutting is Mainstream
  9. WiFi, Geo Location & Facebook Advertising
  10. What to read this weekend
  11. Why Facebook wants to manage your WiFi connections.
  12. Details on Tesla’s new big beefy chips
  13. When the Quantum Computers Attack
  14. The Company You Keep
  15. Summer’s over so let’s WeWork
  16. What’s worth reading
  17. Why Pen + Paper are good for you
  18. The Must-Have Lens for your Leica SL
  19. The irony of Allbirds socks
  20. 10,000 Steps in a New York Summer
  21. A Circle of Words: emails to blogs to newsletters
  22. Facts & Fiction of Space Internet Claims
  23. Short Review: Panasonic Lumix L Mount 70-200/F4 Lens
  24. Better together, here on earth and in space
  25. Time for a mindful approach to technology
  26. How the Czars dressed for their big parties
  27. What is the point of life?
  28. How a disease looks like as an artwork
  29. Seeing the future through the fog
  30. Fuji Delight
  31. Some stories worth reading..
  32. Be your own measure
  33. Fogust is for Yankees and Cricket

July 2019

  1. A Founder Metric That Matters
  2. Cole’s Quest
  3. In era of instant experts, only the test of time really matters
  4. What to read this weekend
  5. Apple is hiring a lot more for Design, AI roles
  6. How to be a regular at a restaurant
  7. To Feel Alive
  8. A Conversation With Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson On The Evolution Of Communication
  9. Some Recent Photography
  10. Media’s Blame Game
  11. Stories worth reading
  12. The Comfortably Dumb
  13. Hello HomePod. So Long Sonos & Bose
  14. Is (Amazon) Prime Day losing its premium?
  15. What to read this weekend
  16. Thirteen
  17. About that AI Infrastructure
  18. Microsoft’s Hypocrisy on DACA
  19. R.I.P., MacBook
  20. Steve Jobs on Jony Ive
  21. What Lee Iacocca & Steve Jobs had in common
  22. Photos from Porto & Germany
  23. What to read this weekend
  24. Happy Fourth of July

June 2019

  1. A Libra Primer: Facebook’s new national currency
  2. Some stories I recommend you read
  3. AmazonBasics is killing it (& the competition)
  4. Adrian Villa
  5. My Photo Journey: Year Five
  6. The Problem With “Content”
  7. 7 Stories worth reading this weekend
  8. How & why to buy computers properly
  9. Bitcoin is a real energy hog
  10. The Bing of Maps
  11. Twitter is Big in Japan
  12. I am soooo excited about iPadOS
  13. How to deal with Big Tech regulation, smartly
  14. Why these are Google’s 7 best acquisitions
  15. What’s Worth Reading
  16. Fiber Networks fear the Four-Legged Hackers
  17. Tech & the Trade Wars
  18. Are you a Sharent?
  19. Why Social Media Detox is so hard
  20. The Cost of Lies
  21. (Mickey) Drexler vs (Elon) Musk
  22. What’s Worth Reading Now
  23. The Decimal Clock

May 2019

  1. Intentionet wins the Best of the (Interop) Show
  2. World Cup (of Cricket) 2019
  3. Fake News is Spam
  4. Time for a Playdate
  5. On Faking It
  6. 7 Stories Worth Reading
  7. Waiting for (Autonomous) Godot
  8. Some Really Good Reads
  9. What’s Wrong Apple & Microsoft
  10. Down the memory lane
  11. Is Online Shopping AR’s Killer App?
  12. In a New York State of Mind
  13. Talking about Uber, Carta & Stuff on TechCrunch Podcast
  14. The Power of Distributed
  15. A Little Less Conversation
  16. Don’t Worry, Blog Happy
  17. 5 stories worth reading right now
  18. I’ve Said it Before, And I’ll Say It Again
  19. Pointless (United)
  20. Which is it: Big Tobacco or Big Oil?
  21. Virtual Unreality
  22. uBiome, Silicon Valley & the issue of trust
  23. Time for Self-Reflection
  24. 5 stories I recommend that are worth reading
  25. What Did Tesla Do Now?

April 2019

  1. Get Up, Stand Up
  2. Facebook Readies for Washington
  3. The Goat Man
  4. Some Good Reads
  5. Facebook’s Dereliction of Duty
  6. Intel’s Mobile Problem
  7. Some Good Reads
  8. The Price is Right
  9. Google: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
  10. The Scourge of Robocalls
  11. The Good Algorithm
  12. 3 pieces of advice in Jeff Bezos’ Shareholder Letter
  13. Chips Don’t Lie
  14. Amazon UnPrimed
  15. The Away Experience
  16. 5 Great Reads
  17. Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on the future of software engineering and the better world ahead
  18. 3 Stories Worth Reading
  19. The Golden Age of Half-Truths
  20. My photos featured on Rebecca Lily’s Blog

March 2019

  1. What to read this weekend
  2. Leica SL: A Love Story
  3. Omakase: The CoolTools Podcast Edition
  4. Brian Chesky eats his own dog food
  5. Social Vacation
  6. How low can you go?
  7. Why a Fake Doctor’s Rise is Really a Media Fail
  8. [03.06.2019] The Daily Noted
  9. Dieter Rams on what really is a designer
  10. Paul Kedrosky’s Newsletter
  11. What Folding Phones Say About State of SmartPhones
  12. Crony Capitalism, not capitalism is the problem

February 2019

  1. Nostalgia Internet doesn’t really matter
  2. [02.26.2019] The Daily Noted
  3. Nibs, Ink and Paper
  4. What’s Worth Reading
  5. Founders’ Keith
  6. Flickr Fabulous
  7. [Quoted] Nike cofounder Phil Knight
  8. Life-changing magic of a bespoke preset
  9. Tim & Lauren Get Married
  10. [02.12.2017] The Daily Noted
  11. Kevin Rose on the next wave of consumer apps and what’s happening in the podcast industry
  12. [02.08.2018] The Daily Noted
  13. Vida Libre & an amazing new Insulin pill
  14. [02.07.2019] The Daily Noted
  15. Jill Abramson & Crytpoamnesia
  16. New Morning & Sounds of Nitin Sawhney
  17. All About Alexa

January 2019

  1. How digital media killed itself
  2. What to read this weekend
  3. When Jack (Dorsey) met Mark (Zuckerberg)
  4. Hello (Again) Ello
  5. Values
  6. Sunday Rains & Random Runimantions
  7. Here is what I am reading today
  8. [The OmShow Podcast] What will 2019 bring?
  9. Sade, Sixty & still a Smooth Operator
  10. 500 years of globalism
  11. The Long Fall of Google+
  12. The anatomy of a media startup’s failure
  13. Many versions of me
  14. What’s the future of TV? (& what can Apple do about it)
  15. China’s Great Cannon
  16. From EKG to Apple on a rainy Friday
  17. Happy Birthday Matt
  18. Best TV shows since The Sopranos
  19. Sad About Bezos
  20. The New Adventure Icons
  21. Too much email, don’t worry, ignore it, be happy
  22. Ad-guy explains Paul Manafort’s crimes.
  23. Why Apple, Amazon & Google are dominating CES
  24. Curious case of NSA, a contractor & Russian Kaspersky Lab
  25. Why without context Google’s billion device “Assistant” claim is B.S.
  26. In Benioff we trust
  27. Is this the next Theranos?
  28. Links & Recommendations
  29. Appleocalypse: An unfashionable view
  30. Why we need to slow time and scale down
  31. What’s wrong with Zuck’s photo?

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