I met Om Malik in Tokyo in 2015… I brought him to the old Hotel Okura for a drink the day before it closed. He was warm and kind and an amazing photographer. What a shame. https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/ #ommalik

could you imagine what your life would be like right now if your name just happened to be Claude?

Amazing work Google

a list of things to do while waiting for doom, posted on america online by user "wolkonsky", while waiting for the release of doom (august 27th, 1993) https://web.archive.org/web/20030108132329/https://rome.ro/lee_killough/humor/doominsa.txt

@amake you know what time it is… Daiso time.

I feel I have to say that while I have a video camera doorbell, it is... not connected to the Internet at all?? It’s just a closed circuit situation. It’s... normal in Japan, every home has one.

It’s absolutely nutso that Ring ever became popular, because the technology to do this without the Internet already existed.

If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026

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TIL that "walk off home run” (a home run that ends the game) was coined in the 80's and only entered common use in the late 90’s or 2000’s. Explains why I didn't know exactly what it was referring to (it's the other team walking off the field while you round the bases). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk-off_home_run

At first I thought these companies were doomed... they were running with risks that seemed insurmountable. I've been tempted to short some of them. But time and again, they make it across the chasm and continue along, strong as ever. Mastering the hype around your company and keeping your investors faithful has really become a core business skill. I dislike it but it’s kind of a superpower.

I started with value investing. Calculate book value and margins of safety. Over time, growth investing took over my world. A company can build a huge moat over very long time periods. It may look unprofitable but can leverage it's own growth and equity to hire the best employees, close huge deals, and dominate markets.

I think we're now in an era of Roadrunner investing. There are so many companies that don't make any sense by standard metrics but if they just don’t look down they can make it

A thing a lot of people don't get in Bluesky-versus-Mastodon drama is that Mastodon is the individualist/libertarian one and Bluesky is the community/collectivist one.

Now that I've said something completely uncontroversial which nobody here will disagree with, let me explain and expand.

A small rant on the contemporary Zeitgeist for the weekend. Fuck 996. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/4/996/

The bus I was in just wrecked a Mazda’s back door and fender.

Just found some serious vintage swag while going through my old stuff. RedHat 4.1 anyone?

The more library books per capita, the fewer residents require nursing care: Japan study https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250624/p2a/00m/0li/017000c

1. Under current rules, if pilots or air traffic controllers seek mental health counselling they are immediately grounded for a minimum of 6 months. That has led far too many to avoid care and led to far too many avoidable tragedies - without making our skies safer.

It's interesting that there is all of this debate about Japanese failing to import US cars because the entire US industry has focused on huge-ass trucks… and at the same time a new truck was announced that by my eyes looks like it might actually do really well in the Japanese market (although still a tad expensive compared to a kei truck but striking distance for sure) https://www.slate.auto/

@docpop the kids made some mini comics for Easter. 🐣