Om Malik’s Final Essay: ‘The Myth, the Mythos and the Man’
Om published this on Monday June 7 — the day of the WWDC keynote. He sent me a note about it, that is too personal to share in full. He described it as his “last shot” — “In case I don’t make it”. He didn’t make it.
I didn’t read it right away because I was busy with WWDC. Then, after he died, I didn’t read it because I couldn’t bring myself to. I did, finally, today. It’s so good. Truly insightful. A taste:
Augustus had the Senate and the priests. Dario had the Oval
Office and the Vatican. The structure is the same. Two thousand
