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I'll repost what I wrote on his wall just now. Probably the most impactful SF/SV passing for me since Jobs. "I first met Om in the mid-2000s when I started in public relations. He …

Plex started out great for us Boxee users left in the cold, but the writing was on the wall when they started offering rentals. Product development has hit a wall in the last two y…

https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarte... "Despite being described as a “cabal,” the amyloid camp was neither organized nor nefarious. Those who championed th…

Never been a fan of Pogue's 'pop tech' take on things, but GREAT interviews here with Woz, Bill Fernandez, Ron Wayne, Chris Espinoza, John Sculley(!), Robert Brunner, Avi Tevanian,…

Microsoft's PowerToys has a great answer to Spotlight on Windows if you're so inclined to try it out. [0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

As a part-time returning student at a community college - who's really just taking advantage of their fantastic advanced manufacturing facilities - most every teacher in this depar…

“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.” -A. Edward Newton

Back in the early 2010s, I was consulting with a then-budding startup called Momentum Machines (now Creator.rest), in which I was tasked with market validation for their Rube Goldb…

A colleague of mine was contracted by one of several firms tasked with liquidating Theranos' Newark facilities back in Aug 2018. I took the opportunity to grab the equivalent of $1…

As a tween who would beg his parents to take him to the OG Fremont store (Mission @ Warm Springs) back in the early 90s, and as a pimpled 14 year-old who was rejected by Fry's for …

If there's any credibility behind the notion of these being deliberate in any way, I'd wager July 15/16.