Om I think you’d enjoy Stephanie’s blog, as I do. 😀 climbtothestars.org

"I came here in an Uber this morning and asked the guy what street we were on. He had no clue. He said, 'I just follow it.'" -Rodney Brooks to @om.co crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/29/i...

This is technically the longest piece we have published on @crazystupidtech.com thus far. It is long because @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social is an interesting guy and I can wait to go for round two!

LLMs mean that no one has to write anything they don't care about, but they also mean that "writing anything" will get equated with "not caring" for most people. (If you really cared, you would video yourself talking about it on your phone.)

It took Apple to come up with a worthy follow-up to one of its best-ever phones — the iPhone X. The iPhone Air is a surprise, and it is at its peak Apple in more ways than one. My early impressions of a phone I didn’t need, want, or care about. om.co/2025/09/22/g...

This feels like an egregious missed opportunity. @katie-drummond.bsky.social your team has been doing so much good work lately, but there's not a single person in this lineup who's written a line of code, let alone critiqued an AI system or that knows about the half-century of AI prior to LLMs...

I couldn’t help myself and decided to do a post-game analysis of the iPhone 17 launch event — and I am impressed by some stuff. I explain in this piece, which went as a newsletter to my readers. om.co/2025/09/10/t...

Congratulations to @techmeme.com founder @gaberivera.bsky.social for celebrating two decades as “conversation” king of tech. My partner in writing adventures, @fvogelstein.bsky.social has a great story about tech.memorandum on @crazystupidtech.com crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/08/a...

Well, I couldn't help myself. I can't do video or podcasts. They take a lot of effort. But I love to write. So I started a newsletter devoted to what else -- but pens. Here is the first edition describing why I started this newsletter. omlovespens.com/2025/09/06/w...

"Venture is dead." I've heard this same prediction in every tech wave Web 1.0, crypto, and now AI. The argument is AI's capital efficiency makes VC obsolete. I believe the opposite. AI won't just save venture; it will restore value to the entire startup economy. trueventures.com/blog/the-tra...

The five things that were necessary before you could have podcasting: Blogging. HTTP. RSS. MP3. iPod. It's pretty simple, but this confluence eludes most tech people and journalists. scripting.com

Hey any one seen any screenshots of this Slack message from Sam Altman to his team. Lot of chatter about this. Just curious. Or maybe the old reporter in me wants to see before believing 🤪 www.perplexity.ai/discover/tec...

SoftBank buying a factory from Foxconn is a real rat king of "companies that have called things off in the past"

Am I the only one who finds this report pretty much worthless. What is the actual number of glasses shipped by Meta? That is the real number. Not some bullshit “percentage growth.”

Links to the full conversation: Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/1Qk... Apple podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/... YouTube - youtu.be/s8Bnd-5p0oA

I was watching this excellent conversation between Stripe co-founder John Collison and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, where the latter eloquently outlines non-financial reasons as to why the software sector is getting (and will keep getting) disrupted by AI. om.co/2025/08/06/w...

Om Malik Om Malik carries with him the quiet gravity of someone who has seen the world change and helped shape its direction. He is one of my oldest friends, someone I’ve known for more than twenty years. We have stood together on icy runways in Svalbard and watched the blue light stretch…

A brief history of the attention economy (via @om.co)

All this talk about Substack (including a wonderful piece by @gruber.foo ) prompted me to ask a few questions and try to answer the Why of Substack. om.co/2025/08/03/t...

A look at newsletter platform Beehiiv, which has hit $30M in ARR and fees starting at $43/month for 1,000 subscribers, unlike Substack, which takes a 10% cut (Jessica Roy/The Information) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

An incisive and on-point read by @om.co om.co/2025/07/30/d...

Apple has now sold over 3B iPhones since its 2007 launch; it reached 1B sold in July 2016, and is estimated to have reached 2B around September 2021 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Mark Zuckerberg has done a good job of making personal super intelligence his own idea. The phrase “personal super intelligence” was coined by Character.AI CEO and co-founder Noam Shazeer. I take a historical look at Zuck “Xerox Machine as a business strategy.” om.co/2025/07/31/m...

This is a good read, and you should read "Super-Intelligence" as well. An instructive comparison is to compare Zuckerberg's manifesto: www.meta.com/superintelli... with Dario Amodei's www.darioamodei.com/essay/machin...

Very good historical context to Zuck's latest manifesto. Has there ever been a company that announces so many things that never ever go anywhere? (e.g. Atlas ad network, programming platform, solar drones, hardware, VR, etc., etc.)? Their next announcement always covers up the failure of the last.

Great overview of Zuck's history of grand manifestos (via @om.co)

The great @om.co analyzed Zuckerberg's memo about “superintelligence” and puts it in context with his past "manifestos" and observes a pattern. He concludes, among other things, that Zuckerberg has anxiety about being a follower rather than a leader in AI. om.co/2025/07/30/d...

@om.co Om Malik has a good take on this: om.co/2025/07/30/d...

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Zuck's new "Super intelligence" memo is talk of the Internet. I try to decode what he is saying & why he is saying it. Either way, the memo is very much on point for Zuck and in keeping with every single time his company has faced an existential crisis. om.co/2025/07/30/d...

@om.co : "This memo is not just about Microsoft. In a way, it’s a weather forecast for the rest of the software industry, which must confront the reality of artificial intelligence. (...) The software business, as it stands today, will bear the brunt of AI’s impact." om.co/2025/07/26/t...

Microsoft “is trying to reconcile two seemingly contradictory realities: How can a company be ‘more successful than ever’ while still eliminating jobs? .. Don’t be surprised if normalization of profitable layoffs becomes the next big Silicon Valley export to broader economy.” om.co/2025/07/26/t...

“This memo is not just about Microsoft. In a way, it’s a weather forecast for the rest of the software industry, which must confront the reality of artificial intelligence.” #AI #Microsoft #FutureOfWork

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I know it has been a while. I have not been writing as much. And staying off the locals, enjoying books and analog life. However, this “memo” from @microsoft.com CEO prompted me to cut through the corporate speak. I read between the lines and this is my analysis! om.co/2025/07/26/t...

Topaz Labs built a $48M business by breaking every Silicon Valley rule: no VC money, no blitzscaling, just laser focus on real customer problems. My interview with CEO Eric Yang for @crazystupidtech.com reveals how they did it. Lot of lessons for founders here. crazystupidtech.com/2025/06/30/t...

This is classic example of long timeApple followers and their navel gazing. This is not the first thing I notice about the new OS. Actually I don’t even notice. My Apple life is iPad, iPhone & Vision Pro. Mac comes last in daily usage. (via @daringfireball.bsky.social ) 512pixels.net/2025/06/find...

Another approach would be to start fresh with the limits of the open web, and don't include features that can't be easily and efficiently supported. See what you end up with. It might be more fun and useful than the fediverse.

It doesn't matter whether on that other platform or on this platform on any other social platform, if you are a normal, with a normal commonsense viewpoint you are not going to be heard, or engaged. And eventually commonsense will be weeded out of Internet/AI all together. It is where we are going.

I decided to take a break from everything, including writing and social media. Instead, I picked up my camera, packed my bags, and went on a photo trip to Svalbard. It was good from a creative standpoint. Photos and trip essay coming soon. Hope all of you are well — or as well as one can be!

I have been talking about this for almost half a decade, but the establishment media is always the last one to realize their own existential threats. Great work by my partner in this newsletter effort, Fred in this story. He understands the world of search so well. [tip for @techmeme.com ]

"Technology is as much problematic for culture, as it is glorious.” Neil Postman #quote

Man, those guys in Washington know how to play tech bros so hard. Take their money, show them the door. And our press than believes whatever they say and print it. You know what I am talking about! Right?

I have had quite fun reporting and writing about the whole OpenAI+Jony Ive deal. If you are keen on reading different, then check out the latest one. om.co/2025/05/22/o...

Read this piece, i think @om.co has nailed it. crazystupidtech.com/2025/05/21/o...

We’re at an inflection point in tech same as when the iPhone launched 18 years ago.And now we have our first full expression of that shift.I don't know if the $6.5 billion partnership between Jony Ive and Sam Altman will work.But it won't be boring. From @om.co at CrazyStupidTech. bit.ly/3SOuTrX

So amazing to see so many of the people I used to enjoy are now on BlueSky making “social” social again. Happy Monday everyone.

How do you design a life? I started thinking about it, and ended up finding a correlation between photography, and other choices we make. om.co/2025/05/18/d...

A reflection on a very strange, wonderful and weird week that made me think of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Here is me rambling down the page! om.co/2025/05/17/w...