So many years reading his newsletter, and forever grateful for Om. He replied to a cold email a long time ago with very specific, helpful advice on a project I was working on. What a legend!
Om Malik has died
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#122I didn't realise he was a Stephenian (University of Delhi).
GigaOM was influential, the techcruch era :).
What a journey!
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#123A sad day for us who learn of his passing. I hope it was painless and peaceful, as befits a person who gave so freely of himself. His collected body of work is a trustworthy chronicle of the Internet and the WWW's glow up era. It will inform generations to come. They will know Om too.
And through the same work, he remains alive to us; we who sought his dogged, prodigious, plain speaking influence, insight, and direct access to the beating heart of the place where it was all being invented and grown and scaled and blown up and resurrected.
Om's writing brought the excitement and possibility of the world to me, circa 2004. A 25-something B-school student, in faraway Pune, India, viscerally experiencing and studying the telecom boom at home, while also looking towards The Valley to see what might come to be, next.
I read him on GigaOm, and his various other later avatars / manifestations, but he is always going to be "Om Malik on Broadband" for me. As he will be for many of my cohort.
GigaOm is dead, long live GigaOm.com.
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#124Why isn’t there a black bar at the top of HN yet?
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#125May his memory be a blessing
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
"valley" and "selfless" in the same sentence is surprising...
sad but that’s why I left. To use a tired DnD analogy, SV used to be kind of a chaotic/neutral place, I liked that. We all helped each other. Now it’s lawful/good but good implies moral choices, many of which I agree with but for some disagreement means shunning. So I left.
Really? I’d think more like chaotic good -> lawful neutral (at best).
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#127Techcrunch - GigaOm and Gawker.
Good times - good guy - RIP and my condolences to his friends and family.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does that not extend beyond tech founders? I hear that SF has one of the highest rates of homelessness...
> I hear that SF has one of the highest rates of homelessness... My understanding is that homelessness in California is a business similar to dating apps (tinder etc). If dating apps would actually find you a partner, they would all go out of business. So dating apps mainly keep you on the hook, fishing for subscriptions.
Who's benefiting from SF homelessness?
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#129“For the soul, there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain”.
Om will be missed.
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