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
Wow! Now this puts emoji art to shame! It’s like writing at school: In English class you’d write in your book and you can’t erase what you’ve written. It’s easy in Microsoft Word to be so pedantic … | Continue reading
As a man who has always had the wand’ring ways Now I’m reaching back for yesterdays ‘Til a long-forgotten love appears And I find that I’m sighing softly as I near September… | Continue reading
A unicorn company, or unicorn startup, is a private company with a valuation over $1 billion. As of August 2021, there are more than 800 unicorns around the world. CB Insights I sometimes felt quit… | Continue reading
A unicorn company, or unicorn startup, is a private company with a valuation over $1 billion. As of August 2021, there are more than 800 unicorns around the world. CB Insights I sometimes felt quit… | Continue reading
Follow me on Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn: that is now part of our daily vernacular. Did you see my TikTok or read my Tweet? We don’t interact. We transact. Read the papers, and you will q… | Continue reading
“I guess there’s something about newsletters that bugs me, and I can’t put my finger on it,” writes Robin Rendle and asks the big question: why publishing on the web is still so hard th… | Continue reading
Social music is streaming’s new growth driver, generating around $1.5 billion in 2020 and growing fast in 2021. It represents a natural evolution of social media rather than an evolution of s… | Continue reading
Nothing is more frustrating to me than YouTube, which decides my front page based on my likes. It seems I can’t have multiple interests — variables — and thus, I must watch certai… | Continue reading
I was recently cleaning my apartment when I came across a scrap of paper — a brainstorming list for outlining the agenda for my Structure conference — an annual event I hosted about the… | Continue reading
I was recently cleaning my apartment when I came across a scrap of paper — a brainstorming list for outlining the agenda for my Structure conference — an annual event I hosted about the… | Continue reading
“Tweek,” is an aggregation of the tweets I sent out during the week. It is a habit I picked up from Disquiet, a blog run by Marc Weidenbaum. It allows me to remember what I was thinking… | Continue reading
Photo courtesy: Lord’s August 12, and it is almost 3 am. I have been awake for nearly 90 minutes. I have done my stretches. It is going to be a long Thursday. I am up early, patiently waiting… | Continue reading
Spotify continues its global dominance, adding 27 million net subscribers between Q1 2020 and Q1 2021, more than any other single service. However, it lost two points of market share over the perio… | Continue reading
Bay Bridge At Night. Photo made with iPhone 12 Pro Max. After a long dinner to celebrate a friend’s birthday, I came home and struggled to fall asleep. The next thing I know, I started watchi… | Continue reading
After five years of daily usage, the keyboard that came with my 2017 iMac Pro started to show its age. I mean, there is nothing wrong with it — just that the keys have become too soft. It has devel… | Continue reading
SpaceX, a company known for making big splashy announcements — thanks to its media & attention savvy founder — very quietly snapped up a small startup called Swarm Technologies. In … | Continue reading
When platforms mediate work – whether delivering food, driving cars, or being an influencer, trouble is only under the surface. And despite all the hype, the red hot creator economy is in mid… | Continue reading
Through the looking GLASS “We’re no longer a photosharing app,” Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, a division of Facebook. Let’s face it: everything Facebook touches eve… | Continue reading
As you know, I am a big advocate of writing on paper with a pen. Many studies have shown that we learn and retain more information when we write with our hands. Sure typing can let us capture more … | Continue reading
I am mulling on a post about Leica & its history of innovation. As part of my research, I have spent time with one of their more innovative yet underrated cameras — the Leica TL-2. It is … | Continue reading
I am mulling on a post about Leica & its history of innovation. As part of my research, I have spent time with one of their more innovative yet underrated cameras — the Leica TL-2. It is … | Continue reading
Most people think of the Covid pandemic in binary terms. You are either for masks or against them. Vaccines or no vaccines. But in reality, the impact of this pandemic is not as straightforward. It… | Continue reading