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February 16, 2026
Sam “Claws” Attention Back OpenAI
Sam Altman got his man. Not only to compete with Anthropic’s Claude Code, but also to show the world what is possible with Codex. And at the same time, he got a brand-new story to tell about invisi...
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February 14, 2026
YouTube on Vision Pro! Finally!
Some days are just good for one thing—lying in bed and doing absolutely nothing. Today happens to be one of those days! I am just lazing here. I have a Vision Pro (version two) strapped to my face,...
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February 13, 2026
Mad Money & The Big AI Race
There isn’t that much of a difference between OpenAI and Anthropic. Both are big foundational AI companies. Both have changed how we think about information, code, and work. Both have very similar ...
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February 13, 2026
Living in the Petri Dish of the Future
If you missed the brouhaha around a 5,000-word blog post about AI, let me bring you up to speed. But before I do, I want to remind you that sometimes a blog post is not just a blog post. It is real...
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February 12, 2026
Is Waymo Worth $126 Billion?
Over the past three years, I have embraced three technologies almost completely. Generative AI, Apple’s Vision Pro, and Waymo. They are all part of my daily routine. And while I can skip Vision Pro...
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February 10, 2026
Conveniencing Ourselves to Irrelevance
My recent rumination about “The Greatest Invention Is…” triggered some thinking around my long-held beliefs about the duality of technology. It left me brooding over the weekend about the present a...
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February 7, 2026
The Greatest Invention is….
Day One is a great journaling service. And every so often it has a good prompt (via the JetPack app) to help you get started. I have no problem with journaling. But sometimes, the prompts are good ...
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February 6, 2026
How AI Goes to Work
Sometimes it takes a single piece in a jigsaw puzzle for the whole picture to come into shape. And that happened earlier this weekend. I was able to crystallize a lot of what I have been thinking a...
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February 5, 2026
OpenClaw is Hawt
I posted this on Twitter. An old fashioned scoop let. Peter Steinberger the creator of product formally known as Clawdbot is one hot commodity in Silly Over AI Valley. The word around Silicon Valle...
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February 4, 2026
Our Crazy Unhinged Now
A confluence of events prompted me to quip on Twitter: What amazing times we live in now. A $16 billion funding for @Waymo (congrats team, the product) is an afterthought thanks to the mega deal be...
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February 3, 2026
Word Boost
You might have noticed an increase in the number of words I am publishing these days. I don’t know why. Or how. Somehow a lot of things have clicked in my head. I quietly switched from consumption ...
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February 3, 2026
OpenAI and the New Announcement Economy
If you want to see my “velocity trumps everything” doctrine at work, you don’t have to look any further than the AI news headlines coming thick and fast about investments, valuations, and all the r...
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February 2, 2026
The Dark Side of FOMO
A video started circulating across my fountain pen and stationery communities. An octogenarian couple stealing expensive pens at the Hamburg Pen Show. The footage is damning. Theft at pen shows isn...
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January 27, 2026
A CEO, Captured.
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 pape...
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January 27, 2026
Does Evidence Even Matter?
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 ranc...
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January 25, 2026
The Joy of Neo-noir
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 c...
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January 21, 2026
Velocity Is the New Authority. Here’s Why
Why does everyone feel overwhelmed by information? Why does it feel impossible to trust what passes through our streams? We tend to blame individual publications, specific platforms, or bad actors....
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January 16, 2026
Made with OpenAi/ChatGPT I start my morning…
I start my morning going through nearly 250 feeds that flow into my “reader” app. Today, two quotes stood out in my early morning reading. “The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into usi...
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January 7, 2026
Who decides what’s real in the age of AI? Instagram does.
Adam Mosseri, Instagram’s chief doesn’t often respond to critics. When I wrote that his year-end memo cast Instagram as a future referee of reality, he pushed back on Threads. He called it an overs...
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January 1, 2026
What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo?
On the last day of 2025, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri posted a 20-slide memo on Instagram. It covered AI, fake content, reality distortion, and how the platform will change. Read it as a press rele...
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January 1, 2026
Welcome to 2026.
And just like that, we’re in a new year. It’s a rainy morning around these parts. A good day to grab a cup of coffee, reflect on the year that was and the year to come, and consider how best to li...
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December 27, 2025
#18 & AI: 2025 Reading List
If you’re new around here, hi! I’m Om, and this is my occasional letter where I share what’s on my mind, my latest writings, articles worth reading from around the web, my recommendations, and some...
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December 25, 2025
Merry Christmas
I hope you and your families are having a wonderful holiday break, and taking the opportunity to recharge. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. December 25, 2025. San Francisco
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