Like us all, truly sad to read of Om’s passing so early in his life. I have read a lot of writing about him since then. Matt’s is the one that shines.
I’d like to celebrate his life with an awesome event on September 29, 2026 (his 60th) in San Francisco, like an OmFest. I’ll find a space where every community from the many facets of Om can come together … I can’t wait for the beautiful collision of his tech / journalism / Indian party planner / pen / coffee / shoes / photography circles, and probably some niches I couldn’t even imagine.
💬 Matt Mullenweg
🔗 Establishment Democrats are promising “war”
Establishment Democrats are promising “war” on incoming progressives and Democratic socialists. When they said “vote blue no matter who,” they were lying. So-called centrist Democrats are more loyal to the establishment than they are to their constituents. These establishment sellouts are willing to work with the Grandpa Puddingbrains and his fascist supporters to protect their oligarch masters.
💬 Mitch Wagner
.. and come Christmas the Dems will wonder why they lost.
🔗 No, jailbreaking your phone isn’t.
Apple — which now advocates criminalizing jailbreaking — was “literally founded on theft," writes Cory Doctorow.
💬 Mitch Wagner
There are many unused accounts in Micro.blog. Some people just didn’t get around to blogging, and some potential spammers who created accounts but couldn’t post. We plan to slowly delete these old accounts to make things faster for active users.
@manton - personally I see this as a really good idea. Particularly if it enhances speed fr the current community. Wondering how this sits with your declaration that:
This is why on Micro.blog when you stop paying, we keep hosting your blog indefinitely.
I am presuming no posts = no blog = delete?
🔗 Ranked: America’s Best-Selling Albums Ever
I have questions.
- The Wall outsold Dark Side in America? Apparently - yes.
- Dark Side not even on the list - despite by anything I look up - it should be somewhere around ‘Rumours’.
- Dark Side globally sits around 4th or 5th on reported AND certified lists.
- Should ‘greatest hits’ albums be included?
.. and so much more
👁️ Unintended Consequences
Saturday night’s match in Kansas City should be a showdown for second place in the group and automatic qualification to the knockout rounds, except the catch is that it may be more beneficial for Austria or Algeria to finish in third. Eight of 12 third-place teams in group play advance to the knockout stage. And the Round of 32 draw potentially appears more favorable for a third-place qualifier from Group J than for its runner-up.
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👁️ Tomorrow will be my 60th ‘Crucial Post’. The day after will be 2 months. The intention is to stop the ‘daily’ on one of those two dates - I just wanted to get an initial foundation in place and then fall back to an ‘as and when’ cadence. 60 Days - or 2 Months. Which will it be❓
Crucial Track 🎵 June 28, 2026
"Prove It" by Television
They did.
Reminded of Tom today when I read that his collection of 4.000 vinyls were being sold at auction.
📺 Watched 🔗 I Will Find You. Said it before, say it again - Harlan does bad, good and great shows based on his books. This one easily sits in a ‘3’ and at times hit ‘4’. All the usual twists and turns - including the big one at the end. Like he does.
★★★ in the end.
The Boston Consulting Group Isn’t Wrong
Organizations must shift their mindset from assuming predictability in their systems to embracing and designing for human unpredictability.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 27, 2026
"America Is Waiting" by Brian Eno & David Byrne
Two of the masters delivering a master
The video is well worth a watch aswell.
The distance between deciding and doing is the single most reliable predictor of whether your life will be extraordinary or ordinary. Not talent, not circumstances, not even the quality of your decisions-but how quickly you collapse the space between intention and reality. Think of this gap as a kind of friction coefficient on your existence: the smaller it is, the more of your internal force actually translates into external motion. When you can move from “I should do this” to physically doing it within hours instead of weeks, you’re not just accomplishing more-you’re operating in a fundamentally different mode of being where your thoughts have immediate consequences in the world, where your inner life and outer life are in a constant, tight, conversation.
💬 Derek Sivers
… via 🔗 Swiss Miss via 🔗 Instagram
🎥 I touched on this in an 🖇️ earlier post. 🔗 Outcome … Yeah … Nah Nah Nah.
I have tried it. Final effort was earlier tonight. Sorry Keanu … ★
Earlier I wrote 🖇️ this - after reading 🔗 this from Alex Hyett who in turn referenced 🔗 this from Brennan Day. It all came after seeing a post in my feeds from 🔗 Ton Zylstra
💡**I was Inspired. **
If you are keeping up, you will know that I have been wrestling with Web Mentions off and on for nigh on 8❓years.
Q - can that really be right?
A - apparently yes according to Mars Edit ….
As of today - no longer. I am ready and able to receive web mentions.
Now - a little like Alex - I need proof - so here I am.
I’m also just a guy, standing in front of the internet, asking it to show him.
🔗 Setting up webmentions | Alex Hyett
I have tried this so many times and something always seems to go wrong.
That said, Alex has inspired me … 🫰🏼 And who knows - this might be the test he has been looking for?
Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more.
🔗 ‘China’s Apple’ is in free-fall – Asymco
Selling cars, eh? 19% phone unit sales drop contributed to the story but cars are a disaster. A phone maker selling cars is a bad idea. Almost as bad as a car maker building robots.
Who could he be talking about?
Crucial Track 🎵 June 26, 2026
🎵 Only the Good Die Young || Remembering ‘Om Malik’ - today he moved on to where or whatever the next realm is.
🪦 RIP Om. I didn’t know. Why would I? Your wisdom will live on.
“The president’s like a box of chocolates,” Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican, said Wednesday. “You never know what you’re going to get.”
He’s probably thinking about Forest Gump.