What is a Metaverse? There is a real answer — aka the science fiction answer. And there is an answer you will get from Zuck and his acolytes. They are busy rearchitecting the company away from soci… | Continue reading
Yosemite from Air. Made with iPhone 13 Pro Max One day somebody will explain to me why it is that, at a time when science has never been wiser, or the truth more stark, or human knowledge more avai… | Continue reading
Yes, I said it before, and I am repeating it. I love farm buildings. The yellow car stuck in the snow is a visual bonus! | Continue reading
Nothing like lights at dawn. Somewhere around where I live. | Continue reading
I love farm buildings! I love farm buildings in snow even more! | Continue reading
I made this somewhere in Tuscany back in 2017. Finally edited it! | Continue reading
It has been over 18 months since I got off Instagram. And by doing so, I have managed to eliminate the popular influences on my work. It has been an excellent way to overcome the meaningless metric… | Continue reading
Earlier this morning, I read a piece about Wordle in the New York Times and decided to find more articles about the red-hot word game. Even Google has an easter egg that would make you believe: Wor… | Continue reading
Ever since buying the new MacBook Pro, I have wondered about Thunderbolt 4.0 and how it impacts my old accessories. I want to make sure I take advantage of the latest technologies on offer in my Ma… | Continue reading
With all the conversation of breaking free from big social platforms, owning your own digital identity, and being independent, I have been asking myself: how can all of us who have slowly become on… | Continue reading
In the late 1990s, when mobile chip behemoth Qualcomm still qualified as an upstart, I started writing about the mobile Internet. I dreamed of a mobile broadband revolution. It was when Japan and t… | Continue reading
Charles Fitzgerald, a good friend, a skeptic of all cloud-hype writes about the cloud (and related technologies) on his blog, Platformonomics. Lately, there has been a lot of noise around something… | Continue reading
Photo by Cameron Smith on Unsplash Facebook executives have downplayed the company’s role in the Jan. 6 attack and have resisted calls, including from its own Oversight Board, for a comprehensive i… | Continue reading
Photos By Om. Somewhere on Northern California Coast, just near Oregon. The new year has started rolling. And like everyone else, the holiday-enforced slowdown and social media abstinence allowed m… | Continue reading
Photos by Om. Made with iPhone 13 Pro Max. I was saddened by the passing of young and exciting new designer Virgil Abloh. He was so young and fresh in his thinking about pop culture and how it inte… | Continue reading
Photos by Om. Made with Leica SL2. 50mm Summicron-L Lens. Wishing you and your loved ones a very happy new year. I hope 2022 is a 10x improvement over 2021. And I hope we can seize the moment this … | Continue reading
About 30 years ago this month, some boffins at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Lab at Stanford University decided to set up a website — they wanted to improve how i… | Continue reading
Photo by Om. Made with Leica SL & Leica M-Summicron 50mm lens. We all have red-letter days in our lives, and they are mile markers on life’s journey. Today happens to be one of those days… | Continue reading
Grand Tetons National Park. Leica SL2 with 75mm Leica Summicron APO. Aperture f9.5. ISO 400. Shutter 1/500th of a second. I wanted to take a moment and wish you all very happy holidays and a very m… | Continue reading
A new variant of coronavirus is upon us. As is its wont, Omicron is more infectious and is spreading fast. While, in the past, the virus impacted only a handful of close friends and family, the rec… | Continue reading
While I was away, Spotify released its annual “Top Songs of the year” list. I quite appreciate this feature from Spotify. Music, at least for me, reflects one’s state of mind, and… | Continue reading
Baily’s Beads, Totality 2021. Made w/Leica SL2-S. Photo by Om. After a blissful few weeks of not having connectivity of any kind, it is time for re-entry into the world of blinking lights, no… | Continue reading
Many who visit my journal don’t care much about cricket. In recent days, the world of cricket has had to confront its ugly racist past and present. An English cricketer of Asian origin talked… | Continue reading
“I’ll have a better understanding of why in a year and an even better one in two, and an even greater one in five, and it’ll go from being, you know, a book of my life to becoming a cha… | Continue reading
Twitter is nothing but a parade of cops. Policemen’s day at the ballpark. It’s not just political, or strictures on art. It’s everything down to, Do you put ketchup on a hotdog? Fuck you! Do you pu… | Continue reading
This weekend, I was reviewing some old film scans, and this specific image made me pause. I made this in 2018 with my Mamiya 6 (with a 50mm equivalent lens.) I used Kodak Portra 400 film. It was ar… | Continue reading
It is not often you get to do something you have never done before. That is an argument made by a close friend, who has been urging me to take on everything uncomfortable and difficult during what … | Continue reading
A few months ago, when Twitter acquired Scroll, a New York-based startup, the only question that remained was how they would integrate the service into the primary Twitter offering. That question g… | Continue reading
This past weekend, along with my friend Naveen and his family, we drove up to the Point Reyes region. We wanted to enjoy the nice fall weather and have lunch at Saltwater in Inverness, one of my fa… | Continue reading
Today is “the first Friday in November,” which is officially Fountain Pen Day. As we fountain pen nerds like to call it, the idea of FPD started in 2012 to celebrate fountain pens. I have often wri… | Continue reading
Today is “the first Friday in November,” which is officially Fountain Pen Day. As we fountain pen nerds like to call it, the idea of NPD started in 2012 to celebrate fountain pens. I have often wri… | Continue reading
Photo by Jonathan Petersson on Pexels.com For quite a while, I have believed that The Athletic, a subscription-only sports media company that had set a template for success in the post-social world… | Continue reading
Facebook, if nothing else, is good at diverting attention away from itself and its pesky public relations nightmares. It doesn’t matter how bad things get – they know that everything be… | Continue reading
Facebook, if nothing else, is good at diverting attention away from itself and its pesky public relations nightmares. It doesn’t matter how bad things get – they know that everything be… | Continue reading
This past weekend was the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the iPod, which not only quietly started the remarkable Apple renaissance but also ushered in a new era that would eventually subsu… | Continue reading
My first introduction to Azeem Azhar was over a decade ago when he was in the early innings of his entrepreneurial journey. His career has evolved, and the technology world now knows him for his ex… | Continue reading
Thinking of Paris. After a few weeks of hectic activities — fun and travels — it was great to return home and enjoy the silence of my apartment. It gave me enough time to do the mundane things arou… | Continue reading
It has been ten years since Steve Jobs passed. The company he co-founded is worth nearly two trillion dollars. The brand he created is everywhere. The devices he helped conjure are everywhere. And … | Continue reading
Since my heart attack, I have tried to live by the day, for the day. I don’t always succeed in doing so, and more often than not, fail. As a result, birthdays as a special occasion to celebrate hav… | Continue reading
There is nothing quite as good as starting your day next to the bay, listening to the slow and rhythmic break of waves on the shore. And it is even better when the fog hugs the distant hills and li… | Continue reading
Friday Night Lights: SF Giants Stadium, long after the game is over. Leica SL2-S. Leica M 135mm lens. “Tweek,” is an aggregation of the tweets I sent out during the week. It is a habit … | Continue reading
After five days of using the iPad Mini, it became obvious: sometimes an iPad is not just an iPad. Confused? *** If you are a regular reader, then you are familiar with my workflow. I switched… | Continue reading
Last week when Apple’s iPhone 13 models went on sale, I asked Twitter followers which model they planned to order. An overwhelming majority voted for the iPhone 13 Pro, followed by the iPhone 13 Pr… | Continue reading
In a recent blog post, George Hahn, who writes about many different things, talked about how capitalism benefits from sowing seeds of discontent. Sure, the piece is not about technology, but it is … | Continue reading
Between the Piers! Made with Leica SL2-S & Leica M f2/35mm APO-Summicron. Photo by Om There are some days when the view outside your window aptly reflects your state of mind. And sometimes thos… | Continue reading
Photo by Skitterphoto on Pexels.com Ambition means different things to different people, but in the capitalist framework I am talking about, I think its defining feature is its linear trajectory. T… | Continue reading
Gotham Gal, aka Joanna Wilson, and partner of Fred Wilson, is a well-known angel investor in New York. She has been a prolific investor, but she is hanging up her boots. Why? Valuations have become… | Continue reading
Given the state of the markets, Tiernan Ray, a veteran journalist who has followed technology stocks for decades, tries to answer this most pertinent of questions. While reading the piece, you migh… | Continue reading