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[3]On my Om
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Technology & Change: Field Notes From The Present Future
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• [4]About Om
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[5] January 21, 2026
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Velocity Is the New Authority. Here’s Why
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Why does everyone feel overwhelmed by information? Why does it feel impossible
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to trust what passes through our streams? We tend to blame individual
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publications, specific platforms, or bad actors. The real answer has less to do
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with any single media entity and more with structural changes in the
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information ecosystem.
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I started my “information” life typing copy on an ill-tempered Remington. As
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a teenage reporter, I saw newspapers being typeset, one letter at a time. It
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was a messy, slow, and laborious process. So I don’t carry romantic
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notions about the old days. I’ve been quick to embrace any technology that,
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in Stephen Covey’s words, helps me keep “the main thing the main thing.” The
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main thing is telling a thoroughly reported, well-written story.
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The early 1990s Internet, followed by blogging at the turn of the century, and
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social media a decade later all helped me do that main thing. In the mid-2000s
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I embraced Dave Winer’s mantra of “sources going direct.” As far back as
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2009, I outlined the coming changes in my essays “[6]How Internet Content
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Distribution and Discovery Are Changing” and “[7]Amplification and the Changing
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Role of Media.”
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For the past decade and a half, the whole information ecosystem has become much
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larger, faster and noisier. It is hardly surprising that nothing works. And we
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feel a collective sense of overwhelming disappointment.
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So, why does nothing work?
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Authority used to be the organizing principle of information, and
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thus the media. You earned attention by being right, by being first
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in discovery, or by being big enough to be the default. That world is gone. The
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new and current organizing principle of information is velocity.
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What matters now is how fast something moves through the network: how quickly
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it is clicked, shared, quoted, replied to, remixed, and replaced. In a system
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tuned for speed, authority is ornamental. The network rewards motion first and
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judgment later, if ever. Perhaps that’s why you feel you can’t discern between
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truths, half-truths, and lies.
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With so much coming at us all the time, it is difficult to give any single
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story or news event much weight. More content means already
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fragmented attention fractures even further.
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Greenland, Iran, Venezuela, Epstein Files, Dodgers. On and on.
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Networks have always shaped how societies are organized. Roman roads didn’t
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just make travel easier; they mapped the reach of the state and the limits of
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power. Shipping routes determined where colonial empires flourished and where
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they faded. In the Victorian age, the railways didn’t just shorten journeys;
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they rearranged British society.
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They created commuting and leisure, turned market towns into suburbs,
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standardized national time, and collapsed the meaning of distance. They also
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reordered authority: timetables mattered as much as parliaments. What looks
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like cultural choice is often the echo of infrastructure. Today’s mobile,
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cloud-linked world is another Victorian moment. Networks compress time and
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space, then quietly train us to live at their speed.
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That’s why we get all our information as memes. The meme has become
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the metastory, the layer where meaning is carried. You don’t need to read the
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thing; you just need the gist, compressed and passed along in
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a sentence, an image, or a joke. It has taken the role of the headline. The
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machine accelerates this dynamic. It demands constant material; stop feeding it
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and the whole structure shakes. The point of the internet now is mostly to hook
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attention and push it toward commerce, to keep the engine running. Anyone can
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get their cut.
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Velocity has taken over.
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Algorithms on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter do not optimize
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for truth or depth. They optimize for motion. A piece that moves fast is
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considered “good.” A piece that hesitates disappears. There are almost no
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second chances online because the stream does not look back. People are not
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failing the platforms. People are behaving exactly as the platforms reward. We
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might think we are better, but we have the same rat-reward brain.
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We built machines that prize acceleration and then act puzzled that everything
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feels rushed and slightly manic. The networks of the past were slower and at a
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scale that was adaptable. I wrote about this years ago, and nothing since has
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disproved it. So when the author of “beliefs outrun facts” says nothing works,
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now you know why.
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The fundamental network-level changes should give you a good idea of why we
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have a growing ambivalent relationship toward media as an organized information
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entity. I will get into technology media from startup perspective in a
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separate piece. For now, I will stick to the broader media ecosystem.
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Let’s use YouTube technology reviews as a case study, because they are
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universally understandable. Take the launch of a new phone: when
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the embargo lifts, dozens of polished video reviews appear on YouTube. They run
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about 20 minutes, share similar thumbnails, and use the same mood lighting. The
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reviewers had access to the phones before everyone else, so they had time to
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prepare their reviews.
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In the old days, before the current phase of content abundance, folks like Walt
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Mossberg, Ed Baig, David Pogue, and Steven Levy were often the first to get
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Apple products for review. Sure, these folks had big platforms, but that head
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start gave them a lot of clout, which meant many non-Apple
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companies offered them early access to their products. I never felt cheated
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or misled by their reviews, though I did notice what they omitted after using
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the product for a few months.
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These days, things are markedly different. For YouTubers, access is the
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currency of survival. Access, of course, means suggested talking points. Again,
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nothing new. What’s different is that every reviewer knows that if they paint
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outside the lines, they’ll lose access. If you don’t have the review out when
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the embargo lifts, it doesn’t matter if you have a better review; no one is
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going to notice.
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The system rewards whoever speaks first, not whoever lives with it long enough
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to understand it. The “review” at launch outperforms the review written two
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months later by orders of magnitude. The second, longer, more in-depth, more
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honest review might as well not exist. It’s not that people are less honest by
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nature. It’s that the structure pays a premium for compliance and levies a tax
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on independence. The result is a soft capture where creators don’t have to be
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told what to say. The incentives do the talking.
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People do what the network rewards. Writers write for the feed. Photographers
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shoot for the scroll. Newsrooms frame stories as conflict because conflict
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travels faster than nuance. Even our emotional lives adapt to latency and
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refresh cycles. The design of the network becomes the choreography of daily
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life.
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In older networks, the constraints were physical. The number of train lines
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limited where cities could grow. The number of printing presses limited how
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many voices could speak. In our case, the constraint is temporal: how fast
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something can be produced, clicked, shared, and replaced. When velocity becomes
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the scarcest resource, everything orients around it. This is why it’s wrong to
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think of “the algorithm” as some quirky technical layer that can be toggled on
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and off or worked around. The algorithm is the culture. It decides what gets
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amplified, who gets to make a living, and what counts as “success.”
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Once velocity is the prize, quality becomes risky. Thoughtfulness takes time.
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Reporting takes time. Living with a product or an idea takes time. Yet the
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window for relevance keeps shrinking, and the penalty for lateness is
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erasure. We get a culture optimized for first takes, not best takes. The
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network doesn’t ask if something is correct or durable, only if it moves. If it
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moves, the system will find a way to monetize it.
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The algorithm doesn’t care whether something is true; it cares whether it
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moves. Day-one content becomes advertising wearing the mask of criticism.
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All of this folds back into a larger point. When attention is fragmented and
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speed becomes the dominant value, media rearranges itself around that
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reality. Not because anyone wakes up wanting to mislead people, but because the
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context makes some paths survivable and others impossible.
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The YouTube algorithm is the real enforcer because it rewards velocity. Get
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into the algorithmic slip stream and you get the numbers and make money. So
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it is no surprise that most day-one reviews are, well, anything but. This goes
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back to my original premise that when velocity becomes the defining metric,
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authority is displaced.
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You don’t need to be right; you need to be first in the feed. Generalize this
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beyond YouTube tech reviews and you see the same pattern
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everywhere. I’m flabbergasted by how much good journalism goes unnoticed every
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day. We didn’t just put journalism, entertainment, politics, and
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private lives on networks. We let the networks rewrite what those things are
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forand how they work.
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None of what I am saying is new. Decades ago the media sage Marshall McLuhan
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summed it up in his timeless phrase, “The medium is the message.” The medium,
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the technology or channel of communication, influences society and individuals
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more profoundly than the content, altering our senses and habits and, in turn,
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our perception, interaction, and culture. The only difference is that network
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is like a hydra, and data is the fuel that adds velocity, the new metric of
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perceived reality.
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The cost of all this isn’t abstract. It’s the review that took three months but
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no one will read. It’s the investigation that required patience. It’s the work
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of understanding something before declaring judgment. All of it still exists,
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still gets made. It just doesn’t travel. And in a system where only what
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travels matters, we’ve made expertise indistinguishable from noise.
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In the age of AI, will any of this matter when our idea of information will be
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entirely different?
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January 21, 2026. San Francisco
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Photo Courtesy of [8]Yousef Hussain via [9]Unsplash
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Om Malik is a San Francisco based writer, photographer and investor. [26]Read
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29 thoughts on this post
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1. [141e0d] Michaela Barnes says:
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[28]January 21, 2026 at 10:30 am
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15 years old now, but seems relevant
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[29]https://www.amazon.com/Blur-Know-Whats-Information-Overload/dp/
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1608193012
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[30]Reply
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1. [f962de] Om Malik says:
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[31]January 21, 2026 at 10:44 am
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Thank you. It seems like we are seeing a progressive degradation.
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[32]Reply
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2. [bd4312] Peter says:
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[33]January 21, 2026 at 11:56 am
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OM,
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Thoughtful and well put. You’ve captured something many of us feel
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instinctively but struggle to articulate – that the system now rewards
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speed over understanding, and motion over meaning. When velocity becomes
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the metric, judgment and depth inevitably get crowded out. A sobering but
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important reflection.
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Best regards,
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Peter
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BTW, I really like your photographic style!
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[34]Reply
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1. [f962de] Om Malik says:
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[35]January 21, 2026 at 6:59 pm
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Peter,
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Thank you for the kind words on my photography. It is my sanity valve.
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On the post, thanks for reading. I am glad it caught your attention and
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you have felt this. It took me a long time to write this piece, because
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I hate writing about media as often as I end up doing. 🙂 I much prefer
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to write about the new and the novel.
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[36]Reply
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1. [0d16e6] JT says:
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[37]January 28, 2026 at 11:51 am
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@Peter, Late-stage newsrooms quietly valued speed over accuracy,
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even if they didn’t say it outright. That was 20 years ago. I think
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that spread like a virus.
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3. [5911a3] Harald Striepe says:
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[39]January 21, 2026 at 12:20 pm
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Very poignant.
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Thank you.
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[40]Reply
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1. [f962de] Om Malik says:
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[41]January 21, 2026 at 6:57 pm
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Thank you Harald.
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[42]Reply
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4. [51ebdd] SlicksSlack says:
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[43]January 21, 2026 at 12:20 pm
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2nd and 3rd last paragraphs are very slight rewrites of each other? Am I
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missing a point there? Everything else lands with more or less nodding
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agreement.
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[44]Reply
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1. [f962de] Om Malik says:
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[45]January 21, 2026 at 6:55 pm
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I should have deleted one of them, but damn, morning without coffee
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sucks. And I should not post without waiting and re-reading 🙂 Sorry
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about that.
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[46]Reply
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5. [23405c] Gideon Rosenblatt says:
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[47]January 21, 2026 at 1:47 pm
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Another thought-provoking post, Om. In one of your recent posts, you noted
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that for younger segments messages are becoming preferred to the feed. How
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do you think that maps to the velocity phenomenon your describing?
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[48]Reply
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1. [f962de] Om Malik says:
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[49]January 21, 2026 at 6:57 pm
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Gideon
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Thanks for the comment. I am hoping to hang out with some young people
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soon and would love to update you how they think. My guess is that
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“messages” is a way to slowdown things for them. But I would answer
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when I am more educated myself.
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6. [a702e8] [51]Parveen K Chopra says:
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[52]January 21, 2026 at 2:48 pm
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Last para repeated, haha
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[53]Reply
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1. [f962de] Om Malik says:
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[54]January 21, 2026 at 6:55 pm
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Oops. Fixed. Thanks for the heads up!
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7. [c68329] [56]Eric Marcoullier says:
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[57]January 21, 2026 at 4:04 pm
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“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome.”
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— Charlie Munger
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All of us early folks (yay, Business 2.0; yay, IGN) really thought we were
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creating a new way to expand the availability of news and information.
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What we didn’t realize was that when news becomes a commodity, people stop
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paying and ads mean everything. We can no longer prioritize valuable
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information and nuanced framing.
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“If it bleeds, it leads” is an old TV adage but man does it feel relevant
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today,
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1. [f962de] Om Malik says:
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[59]January 21, 2026 at 6:54 pm
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The whole point is that we have undermined the value system around
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attention. Everything is marketing. Everyone is selling. So no ones to
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say anything that adds friction in the process of selling. 🙂
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8. [14ad96] Bob Mason says:
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[61]January 21, 2026 at 4:23 pm
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This feels intimately connected to this post from Nic Carter released today
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as well. And of course, I received both by way of email newsletters.
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[62]https://murmurationstwo.substack.com/p/
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the-for-you-page-is-killing-social
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[63]Reply
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1. [f962de] Om Malik says:
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[64]January 21, 2026 at 6:54 pm
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Thank you Bob for sharing this.
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9. [984d4e] Ike Nassi says:
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[66]January 21, 2026 at 7:39 pm
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Hmm…. Don’t see a photo.
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10. [f95f4a] MARKO BJELAC says:
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[68]January 22, 2026 at 1:09 am
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As often, a very interesting article.
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IMHO the point a bit too much drilled in. Also, a bit defeatist.
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For example,
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This is why it’s wrong to think of “the algorithm” as some quirky
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technical layer that can be toggled on and off or worked around.
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I agree with the “worked around” bit but social media algorithms actually
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are technical layers. They are just technology and all technology can be
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turned off, but their owners do not want that. So, we can use
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algorithm-free technology for getting information. I am using that as I
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read your newsletter. A long time ago I’ve abandoned Twitter. I still use
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Linkedin for networking. Every once in a while I try to scroll Linkedin’s
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feed but every time I do that I see low-grade info wasting my time so I
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just stop.
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I am a paying subscriber of one Substack. I follow several others for free.
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Although these also tend to have bias as again the incentive is to get as
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much subscribers as possible.
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I’m also subscribed to several [69]https://theconversation.com/ feeds.
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These are giving me unbiased (I currently feel) reports on the state of the
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world.
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As Eric commented, the incentive is the reason for this degradation, and it
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didn’t start with social media or the internet. If it bleeds it leads. The
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core problem is financing the journalists. Journalism is a public service
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and should be financed that way. Why can’t it be set up that way?
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Peer-reviewed like science (although that one is also being corrupted by
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financial incentives).
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So, looks dark but I see ways out. How to get there?
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11. [795954] Menachem Sharron says:
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[71]January 22, 2026 at 5:10 am
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Thank you dear Om.
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I enjoy reading your emails very much.
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Keep going.
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Rgds
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Menachem Sharron
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1. [f962de] Om Malik says:
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[73]January 22, 2026 at 7:18 am
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Thank you Menachem. Wishing you my best
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12. [4d7ec0] Priya Narasimhan says:
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[75]January 22, 2026 at 5:41 am
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Great writing, Om! Long time reader, first time commenting…
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You’ve articulated what we’re all feeling in daily life. I’ve been thinking
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technology is outpacing human adaptability and when it needs intervention,
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if at all…
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1. [f962de] Om Malik says:
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[77]January 22, 2026 at 7:21 am
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Thank you Priya for reading and commenting.
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We are at a point where human adaptability is going to redefine itself,
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and we will perhaps in time learn how to use tools that are only
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emerging that will help us figure out how to deal with so much chaos on
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the information front. But that would also mean that we might need to
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know what we want from our information flows. I am not sure, we are
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there yet.
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13. [41caa2] [79]Jamie Diamond says:
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[80]January 22, 2026 at 8:38 am
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As a career tech PR guy pitching countless startup stories over the years
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to various waves of media over the last (Om my gosh 4 decades) – Om, this
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is your most cutting story for me in your vast writing history. It’s not
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about me being able to do my job, its not even about the future of AI and
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storytelling – I have four little girls that we home school and what kind
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They are rare to find, but not rare as an entity
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15. [178c8c] [86]Andrew McLuhan says:
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“For the ‘message’ of any medium or technology is the change of scale or
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This really resonates with me. I keep feeling that tension between wanting
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depth almost feels like a liability. It’s sobering to see how
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