Matt: Om Links

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It’s truly a testament to how Om lived life to see the outpouring of remembrances in comments on the post and around the web on Techmeme.

I do wish he had been more public earlier in his health journey. You never know what you’ll learn. I’ll take that as a lesson for myself if I’m ever in a similar situation.

There have been some great long-form writings about Om:

• John Gruber ties together Apple, the Yankees, and luggage.
• Stacey Higginbotham from the original GigaOM.
• Mathew Ingram.
• The New York Times did an obituary.
• Ben Clymer on Hodinkee.
• Ryan Merket on RuntimeWire.
• Om introduced Krutal Desai as his son.
• Susan Hobbs.
• Pradeep Elankumaran.
• Naveen Selvadurai.
• Christopher Michel.
• Jonathan Gheller.
• Mamoon Hamid.
• Rob Beschizza on Boing Boing.
• Brian Sugar.
• Hugo Barra on how Om got him to write.
• Ian Kennedy, also with some great quotes.
• Toni Schneider.
• Sean Bonner.
• John Battelle.

I know I’m missing a ton, I’ll update the above. I also added a few more vignettes and pictures to the last post.