Technology & Change: Field Notes From The Present Future
Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. We invite you to share your remembrances of Om in the comments below or by posting and tagging his accounts on X/Tw…
I am taking a few days off. No posts here, no newsletter, no notes from the road. Things will be quiet on om.co until I am back. The last few months have been heavy on output. Essays, the newsletter with Fred, the long pieces on OpenAI and AI infrastructure, t…
For a while I have been wondering why Anthropic named its most powerful AI model Mythos. A safety company. A company whose entire justification for existing is that someone needs to tell the truth about what is being built. That company chose a name that, in t…
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 ecosystem it covers. My one-word reply was “Absolutely.” And here’s why.…
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 and paper. No, it is the power money confers that makes the world go ’r…
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 lack beliefs or convictions. With the growing rancor in our social, political, and economic arenas, I turn away f…
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 trustafarian investigator who solves crimes among the wealthy, catalogs his consumption of calorific…