Thank you John. From someone who knew him less but liked him just as much.

One thing SF and NY have in common are those luggage stores. I’ve always assumed they’re a multi-layer front: the obvious scam is selling baggage stolen off the carousel, but the deeper scam is that couriers can walk in pretending to be a customer and walk out with a suitcase full of cash.

That said, they do serve a legit purpose for when you’ve bought some souvenirs. But that can’t be enough to sustain these places.

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.

Beautiful tribute. Godspeed.

Beautifully written. Om will be missed.

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.

Top marks, that.

Some more anecdotes & discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678852

i never head of om until his death.