“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm,” an observation by Franklin D. Roosevelt came to mind when I was watching the first two episodes of Slow Horses. It is a new television series that debuted on Apple TV+ th … | Continue reading
I was full of ideas when I went to sleep and was going to take some time today and write. But last evening, after FDA approved the second booster shot for folks over 50, I got my second booster shot. It has been six months since I got my booster, and I got nervous. I … | Continue reading
Did you know that the 88th day of the year is International Piano Day? Why? Because there are 88 keys on a piano. Today, March 29, is the Piano Day. On the day’s occasion, there is a special playlist you can check out on Spotify. It is also available on other streaming platforms, … | Continue reading
Today is the day of the Oscars — Academy Awards that celebrate excellence in the art of movie-making. There was a time when this was a red-letter day on my calendar. I have not paid much attention to this made-for-TV spectacle since I cut the cord. I am not the only one who has … | Continue reading
It has been a few years since I was able to attend the Founder Camp, an annual celebration and gathering of founders backed by True Ventures. The global pandemic and travel restrictions made it impossible for us to host the event, but we found a way to gather outdoors and enjoy e … | Continue reading
U.S. President Joe Biden has informed Americans that a potential cyberwar with Russia is likely. And we should be prepared for the consequences and havoc it can cause on such a society. It is common knowledge many of our industries, corporations, and infrastructure services, such … | Continue reading
As the world around me has started to (pre-maturely regain normalcy), I have decided to deal with some of the to-do list items. The more I try to get things done, the more I realize that our “digital transition” is still in infancy, and any talk of a digital-first society is deci … | Continue reading
Snow hides nature’s imperfections and only reveals what it thinks we should experience. It is one of the photos from my Antarctica 2021 series. It is my interpretation of the landscape, and I use the high key is to emphasize the empty white expanses I experienced. I made the phot … | Continue reading
The book is a grim lesson in how cyberwar is waged and underlined by long-held belief that privacy and the concept of secrecy is a fiction, that anything can be hacked…… Up until this b… | Continue reading
Paul Millerd, author of The Pathless Path, in an interview with Sara Campbell, points out: This might surprise you but I think the framing of “The Great Resignation” is off. It seems like a successful media narrative that has helped generate clicks but doesn’t really get to the h … | Continue reading
I woke up this morning thinking about the new Apple Studio Display’s webcam hiccup. It has reaffirmed my belief that the camera, and by extension, the visual sensor, is becoming a key interface to the information and how we interpret it. What keyboard and mouse were to what was t … | Continue reading
The endless quiet of the Elk Refuge in Jackson, Wyoming. Winters in this part of the world are my favorite and I can’t wait to go back next year. Due to unavoidable circumstances, I missed the visit this year. This photo is also a testimonial for iPhone and its ability to capture … | Continue reading
…not much has changed in 33 years on the macro level. We’re still setting up differentiable neural net architectures made of layers of neurons and optimizing them end-to-end with backpropagation and stochastic gradient descent. Everything reads remarkably familiar, except it is s … | Continue reading
Our challenge is that our economic systems are revving society and the planet into out-of-control spirals. The scale required to change that spiraling is unlike anything we’ve faced. It was never going to be easy, but humans have a tendency to defer big problems to a point of cri … | Continue reading
Nicholas Carr, one of my favorite writers, penned an excellent rumination on the perils of information overload in his must-read book, The Shallows. The stress that Google and other Internet companies place on the efficiency of information exchange as the key to intellectual prog … | Continue reading
The reviews for Apple’s new Studio Display are in — and they aren’t kind. Some of them are brutal. I read, viewed, and heard what the reviewers had to say — and my conclusion: they are fine, with a handful of misses. You can get a near-exact display from LG for about $300 less. H … | Continue reading
The book is a grim lesson in how cyberwar is waged and underlined by long-held belief that privacy and the concept of secrecy is a fiction, that anything can be hacked… … Up until this book, the hidden market for zero day exploits has been covered in bits and pieces, but it’s Per … | Continue reading
Dubbed the “king of cashmere” by The New Yorker, Brunello Cucinelli is the founder of the eponymously named fashion house that is well-known for making luxury cashmere sweaters (and more than $450 … | Continue reading
Yet Another Apple Event, also known as an opportunity for The New York Times columnists to mock it, is in the rearview mirror. Unlike the Times, I was impressed that Apple created a machine (Mac Studio Ultra) that is about the size of three hard drives and is 25 percent as powerf … | Continue reading
In an article about a new research paper about changing media consumption habits, Neiman Lab columnist Joshua Benton observed: Before the internet, the consumption of news was profoundly driven by … | Continue reading
Photo by Ronda Darby on Unsplash My general physician quit UCSF and joined another group. After a few years of working with her, I hoped that at least, she is going to send me an email. Instead I g… | Continue reading
Spotify is buying Chartable and Podsights, two podcasting-focused analytics companies, for an undisclosed amount of money. Spotify said it would use the Podinsights technology in its broa… | Continue reading
Photo Unsplash Another week is in wind-down mode. I hope your week was more productive and bountiful than my continued struggle with finding a writing rhythm. Despite my best efforts, I didn’t writ… | Continue reading
Random Sunday musings — triggered by wide-ranging opinions about Neil Young, Joe Rogan, Spotify, freedom of speech, and censorship. What should be a nuanced and thoughtful debate has now been… | Continue reading
I fell asleep quite early last evening, and not surprisingly. I woke up at an ungodly hour. And that’s when I found out the sad news. Lata Mangeshkar, the Nightingale of India, has died. Whil… | Continue reading
I wrote a guest piece for my former colleague Stacey Higginbotham’s wonderful newsletter on the internet of things. It tackled the need and importance of trust, privacy, and security in this … | Continue reading
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