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Why OpenAI getting OpenClaw in its clutches is a good thing. For the company, and for the Claw ecosystem. Some reasons, and a general reflection on the news/hype cycle in this Monday morning piece. om.co/2026/02/16/s...
Sam “Claws” Attention Back OpenAI
Sam Altman got his man. Not only to compete with Anthropic’s Claude Code, but also to show the world what is possible with Codex. And at the same time, he got a brand-new story to tell about …
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February 16, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Why OpenAI getting OpenClaw in its clutches is a good thing. For the company, and for the Claw ecosystem. Some reasons, and a general reflection on the news/hype cycle in this Monday morning piece. om.co/2026/02/16/s...
When reading an interview with @waymo co-CEO in @Bloomberg, I was hoping for some clarity to help understand the $126B valuation and Waymo’s growth trajectory. When I didn't get any, I did my own math. Waymo has a "physics" problem. And I say that as a Waymo fanboy.
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Is Waymo Worth $126 Billion?
Over the past three years, I have embraced three technologies almost completely. Generative AI, Apple’s Vision Pro, and Waymo. They are all part of my daily routine. And while I can skip Visi…
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February 13, 2026 at 1:12 AM
When reading an interview with @waymo co-CEO in @Bloomberg, I was hoping for some clarity to help understand the $126B valuation and Waymo’s growth trajectory. When I didn't get any, I did my own math. Waymo has a "physics" problem. And I say that as a Waymo fanboy.
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Waking up to sad news that Internet’s true pioneer and one of my heroes David Faber, the man behind the IP List, and the true router of the internet, has passed on. He was 91, but with the curiosity and mind of a young child. Rest In Peace, Legend.
February 11, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Waking up to sad news that Internet’s true pioneer and one of my heroes David Faber, the man behind the IP List, and the true router of the internet, has passed on. He was 91, but with the curiosity and mind of a young child. Rest In Peace, Legend.
The transistor or the Internet, which one is the greater invention of your life? Good question, and the answer should be obvious based on when you were born. Or is that obvious?
The Greatest Invention is….
Day One is a great journaling service. And every so often it has a good prompt (via the JetPack app) to help you get started. I have no problem with journaling. But sometimes, the prompts are …
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February 11, 2026 at 2:50 AM
The transistor or the Internet, which one is the greater invention of your life? Good question, and the answer should be obvious based on when you were born. Or is that obvious?
What does a 100-year-old book by Mahatma Gandhi have to do with our present and AI future? Actually, a lot, as I found out. Here is what I wrote and why it might help us understand the duality of change and progress. New essay.
Conveniencing Ourselves to Irrelevance
My recent rumination about “The Greatest Invention Is…” triggered some thinking around my long-held beliefs about the duality of technology. It left me brooding over the weekend about t…
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February 10, 2026 at 1:05 PM
What does a 100-year-old book by Mahatma Gandhi have to do with our present and AI future? Actually, a lot, as I found out. Here is what I wrote and why it might help us understand the duality of change and progress. New essay.
Sometimes it takes a single piece in a jigsaw puzzle for the whole picture to come into shape. And that happened earlier this weekend. And it happened because of a 40-year-old piece of software @claudeai. A new essay, How AI goes to work. (warning: it's very long.) om.co/2026/02/06/h...
February 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Sometimes it takes a single piece in a jigsaw puzzle for the whole picture to come into shape. And that happened earlier this weekend. And it happened because of a 40-year-old piece of software @claudeai. A new essay, How AI goes to work. (warning: it's very long.) om.co/2026/02/06/h...
The word around Silicon Valley is that everyone from Meta to OpenAI to xAI wants a piece of OpenClaw and its creator. Zuck and Sam might even have met with him.
February 5, 2026 at 4:58 AM
The word around Silicon Valley is that everyone from Meta to OpenAI to xAI wants a piece of OpenClaw and its creator. Zuck and Sam might even have met with him.
We are living in crazy, amazing, unhinged times. A simple reflection on our reality, from the perspective of a technology writer/observer. om.co/2026/02/04/o...
Our Crazy Unhinged Now
A confluence of events prompted me to quip on Twitter: What amazing times we live in now. A $16 billion funding for @Waymo (congrats team, the product) is an afterthought thanks to the mega deal be…
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February 4, 2026 at 8:06 PM
We are living in crazy, amazing, unhinged times. A simple reflection on our reality, from the perspective of a technology writer/observer. om.co/2026/02/04/o...
A couple of octogenarians were caught red-handed stealing fountain pens at a pen show in Germany. It got me thinking about their motivations and sent me down a deep rabbit hole of how social media has made FOMO the eighth deadly sin. An off-the-cuff blog post.
The Dark Side of FOMO
A video started circulating across my fountain pen and stationery communities. An octogenarian couple stealing expensive pens at the Hamburg Pen Show. The footage is damning. Theft at pen shows isn…
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February 4, 2026 at 2:50 AM
A couple of octogenarians were caught red-handed stealing fountain pens at a pen show in Germany. It got me thinking about their motivations and sent me down a deep rabbit hole of how social media has made FOMO the eighth deadly sin. An off-the-cuff blog post.
Trillion doesn't mean what it used to mean.
Walmart hits a $1T market cap in intraday trading after a stock surge fueled in part by investor enthusiasm for its e-commerce growth and AI investments (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)
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February 3, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Trillion doesn't mean what it used to mean.
The whole brouhaha around Nvidia having second thoughts about pumping $100 billion into its biggest customer was a good reminder that we now live in a brave new world of "announcement economy," and it feeds the new information god— velocity. New essay, om.co/2026/02/02/o...
OpenAI and the New Announcement Economy
If you want to see my “velocity trumps everything” doctrine at work, you don’t have to look any further than the AI news headlines coming thick and fast about investments, valuations, and all the r…
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February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
The whole brouhaha around Nvidia having second thoughts about pumping $100 billion into its biggest customer was a good reminder that we now live in a brave new world of "announcement economy," and it feeds the new information god— velocity. New essay, om.co/2026/02/02/o...
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Wiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
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February 2, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Wiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
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Silicon Valley “used to believe it could change the world. Now it just hopes the world won’t change its stock price.”
Brilliant mini essay by Om Malik (@om.co) re: Tim Cook, Apple, Melania, Trump, ethics, and the stock market.
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Brilliant mini essay by Om Malik (@om.co) re: Tim Cook, Apple, Melania, Trump, ethics, and the stock market.
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A CEO, Captured.
I keep thinking about a line Lawrence Sanders wrote: a character asks whether money makes the world go round. The reply: “I do not believe it is money itself. After all, t…
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January 29, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Silicon Valley “used to believe it could change the world. Now it just hopes the world won’t change its stock price.”
Brilliant mini essay by Om Malik (@om.co) re: Tim Cook, Apple, Melania, Trump, ethics, and the stock market.
om.co/2026/01/27/a...
Brilliant mini essay by Om Malik (@om.co) re: Tim Cook, Apple, Melania, Trump, ethics, and the stock market.
om.co/2026/01/27/a...
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February 1, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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As a follow-up to last week’s essay about “Velocity is the new authority,” I published a follow-up today about tech & media’s increasingly complicated (and often fraught) relationship.
Why Tech (&) Media is complicated
After I published my “velocity is the new authority” essay, a reader and dear friend emailed and asked if my framework explained the fraught relationship between media and the technology …
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February 1, 2026 at 6:03 PM
As a follow-up to last week’s essay about “Velocity is the new authority,” I published a follow-up today about tech & media’s increasingly complicated (and often fraught) relationship.
In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Roy Bland captures a cynical, post-ideological, corrupt English society: “You scratch my conscience; I’ll drive your Jag.” You could say the same of today’s Silicon Valley. om.co/2026/01/27/a...
A CEO, Captured.
I keep thinking about a line Lawrence Sanders wrote: a character asks whether money makes the world go round. The reply: “I do not believe it is money itself. After all, that is just metal an…
om.co
January 27, 2026 at 5:31 PM
In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Roy Bland captures a cynical, post-ideological, corrupt English society: “You scratch my conscience; I’ll drive your Jag.” You could say the same of today’s Silicon Valley. om.co/2026/01/27/a...
I have written many separate essays: cameras as witnesses, tribalism as blindness, velocity as authority, AI as reality distortion, half-truths. Suddenly, they have converged into an ugly reality. The early 90s when I first wrote about the Internet seem so long ago. om.co/2026/01/26/d...
Does Evidence Even Matter?
I was taught never to discuss money, politics, or religion in public. Those childhood lessons are why I avoid political commentary, though I don’t…
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January 27, 2026 at 4:37 PM
I have written many separate essays: cameras as witnesses, tribalism as blindness, velocity as authority, AI as reality distortion, half-truths. Suddenly, they have converged into an ugly reality. The early 90s when I first wrote about the Internet seem so long ago. om.co/2026/01/26/d...
I have been rereading some crime fiction from the late 1990s and early 2000s. They have been a joy. The question is why? And answering that question has turned into a new essay, Neo Noir. What is Neo Noir, and how is it different from classic noir, and why it makes sense to me
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The Joy of Neo-noir
I’ve been enjoying Lawrence Sanders again. Specifically, the Archy McNally series: those breezy Palm Beach mysteries from the ‘90s and early 2000s, starring a tru…
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January 25, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I have been rereading some crime fiction from the late 1990s and early 2000s. They have been a joy. The question is why? And answering that question has turned into a new essay, Neo Noir. What is Neo Noir, and how is it different from classic noir, and why it makes sense to me
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Why does everyone feel overwhelmed by information? Why does it feel impossible to trust what passes through our streams? We tend to blame individual publications, specific platforms, or bad actors. Here is why. om.co/2026/01/21/v...
Velocity Is the New Authority. Here’s Why
Why does everyone feel overwhelmed by information? Why does it feel impossible to trust what passes through our streams? We tend to blame individual publications, specific platforms, or b…
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January 22, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Why does everyone feel overwhelmed by information? Why does it feel impossible to trust what passes through our streams? We tend to blame individual publications, specific platforms, or bad actors. Here is why. om.co/2026/01/21/v...
What used to require shame and ostracism is now baked into the internet’s economic infrastructure. The algorithmic reality of technology platforms has codified conformity into the human condition. And it is very profitable—the real late-stage capitalism.
Our Algorithmic Grey-Beige World
Made with OpenAi/ChatGPT I start my morning going through nearly 250 feeds that flow into my “reader” app. Today, two quotes stood out in my early morning reading. “The main purpo…
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January 16, 2026 at 10:30 PM
What used to require shame and ostracism is now baked into the internet’s economic infrastructure. The algorithmic reality of technology platforms has codified conformity into the human condition. And it is very profitable—the real late-stage capitalism.
I appreciated Adam Mosseri's response to my essay about his “20-slide memo". I took into account what he said but also what Meta has done, and said, over the past couple of years since the AI tsunami swept over Silicon Valley. I published my thoughts today.
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Who decides what’s real in the age of AI? Instagram does.
Adam Mosseri, Instagram’s chief doesn’t often respond to critics. When I wrote that his year-end memo cast Instagram as a future referee of&n…
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January 7, 2026 at 5:49 PM
I appreciated Adam Mosseri's response to my essay about his “20-slide memo". I took into account what he said but also what Meta has done, and said, over the past couple of years since the AI tsunami swept over Silicon Valley. I published my thoughts today.
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Each issue will go deep on a specific region. We started with the most remote area from Tokyo but one of my favorites: the Yaeyama Islands of Ishigaki, Iriomote, Taketomi, and Yonaguni etc.
December 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Each issue will go deep on a specific region. We started with the most remote area from Tokyo but one of my favorites: the Yaeyama Islands of Ishigaki, Iriomote, Taketomi, and Yonaguni etc.
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I am grateful to @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com for tolerating my internet connection's bizarre resistance to the podcasting software
Neon Liberalism #55: Has culture stagnated in the 21st century? Do the last twenty-five years feel like a blur? And is Donald Trump the greatest kitsch artist of our time? Join Samantha Hancox-Li and guest W. David Marx, author of the just-released "Blank Space," as they talk all of this and more.
Neon Liberalism #55: Politics As Culture
Has culture stagnated in the 21st century? Do the last twenty-five years feel like a blur? What can politics learn from the inherent dynamics of cultural change? And is Donald Trump the greatest kitsc...
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December 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I am grateful to @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com for tolerating my internet connection's bizarre resistance to the podcasting software