Blogging since 1998. By David Wertheimer
I didn t know Om Malik. But apparently I missed out, as he was universally, outwardly adored. The number of effusive farewell posts Om has received this week upon his passing at age 59 is something to behold. Om s status as Silicon Valley s favorite eminence grise was not news. We can rest assured he knew he [ ]
Matt Glassman blogged about this topic yesterday, and I thought it was an interesting opportunity for reflection. As he wrote, here are the national news events for which I can recall precisely where I was when I found out about them. Excludes sporting events, elections, (most) court decisions, and the passage of legislation, and must [ ]
Yankees’ Netflix debut is latest example of sports’ complicated TV landscape. The headline of this Andrew Marchand piece in the Athletic says it all. Did you know the Yankees regular-season games shuffle between eight different television outlets? The Yanks are big enough that casual fans will find them here and there, and I guess that s [ ]
Like everyone, I m busy developing expertise in harnessing AI, vibe coding in my spare time. I have a couple of product ideas I d like to wrangle, but they re going to take some time to get right. So I ve been undertaking in-one-sitting projects and improving my prompting skill. Last month, I had Claude pull this blog [ ]
Really enjoyed this blog post that slowly traces the English language back in time for a thousand years.
I found all three of my Sony Walkmans on the walkman.land website. WM-F10: my first Walkman, received when I was maybe ten years old. My parents really went for it! This was a high-quality, tiny cassette player with a built-in FM radio receiver (which I absolutely used). The build of this device was particularly clever, [ ]
I m at the waiting room at the doctor s office. It s a big space, the entryway to a health center, maybe 50 feet long with lots of couches. I m sitting at the far end, one of around ten people waiting for their appointments. A nurse comes out from a door on the other end of the [ ]
The Neo looks great! Amazing that you can buy a full-on Mac laptop for less than a late-model iPhone. I kind of wish I had a reason to buy one.
I am something of a packrat. I derive comfort and pleasure from the artifacts of my past. My parents house is still full of material remnants of my youth, from art projects to my physical music collection to once-beloved items of clothing. Sometimes, this works out: last year, when my son got into thrifting culture, [ ]
I ve discussed this plenty over the past year, but I do want to mark a milestone: I first started tracking my weight with a spreadsheet and a line graph on March 10, 2006. At the time, I was working at a beauty company, surrounded by people who routinely looked their best. It was motivational for [ ]