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- I was an avid reader during the web 2.0 days. Quite sad that his kind of tech journalism vanished; one could feel the decline of independent blogs month over month, while Facebook and Google were taking over the entirety of the web's traffic control.
But the old internet still exists in pockets. I found this via Om - glass.photo. https://glass.photo/cm/LCGjX2IqUWtK288zq5dSt
by jeswin - It's rare that something posted on HN brings me to tears but I feel lucky when it does.
Thank you for this.
by jimkleiber - Reminds of this couplet by Kabir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabir):
जब हम पैदा हुये तो जग हँसे हम रोये,
ऐसी करनी कर चलो, हम हँसे, जग रोये।
Translation: When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced;
Live such a life that when you depart, you smile while the world weeps.
by avilay - I did not know Om but the way his friends and confidants write about him, I wish I did.
- Sounds like the world lost a good one. It’s extra sad when that happens.
Sorry for your loss, John. That was an excellent tribute.
by cr125rider - Yes, somehow his this particular essay landed in my inbox middle of May, beautully insightful one and an emotional one. I for some reason saved it as I liked it so much. Did not know it had been written from ICU.by embit
- The first time I had any exposure to Om and his work was on The GigaOm Show on Revision3 (twenty years ago!). It was still a time where I thought it was wondrous that high production-value content would be distributed online for free—YouTube and friends still hadn't found themselves with "high end" content. It felt like the future of news, and it was. He was a really pleasant guy, and really far ahead of his time.by bastawhiz
- "He not busy being born is busy dying, wrote Dylan. Om Malik wasn’t busy dying even when he was dying." - so very well said.by geekybiz