https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco 2026-07-12T23:37:08+00:00 https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026 robertogreco archives archiving 2026 lucamessarra chrisfreedland juliyaziskina katielivingston brookepalmieri helennde lauragibbs peterscholing alicebridgewood vidavojić publicaccess culture history brewsterkahle lucamessara alliealvis jordanmechner philipbump mariabustillos rickprelinger nicholemisakonomura evescarborough loss libraries memory cyberattacks streaming licensing cookbooks storytelling stories queer folktales language film collections collecting journalism media videogames games gaming digitalhumanities librarians https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5f76f8996463/ 2026-06-27T07:16:32+00:00 https://ma.tt/2026/06/om-forever/ robertogrecoThey say that blood is thicker than water, and what we had was way thicker than blood. — Bob Weir Om’s request was for a small family prayer ceremony. In mourning, that will be all there is. In celebration and tribute, I love that everyone is sharing their Om stories online, like the writing and photography Christopher Michel shared, which very much embody the OG spirit of blogging that Om pioneered. *** A Renaissance Man I knew Om contained multitudes, but sitting by his side these last few weeks, I’ve been amazed to learn how many deep and completely separate communities he was part of. He meant so much to so many, in so many different ways. Om loved putting on a good conference, and I’d like to celebrate his life with an awesome event on September 29, 2026 (his 60th) in San Francisco, like an OmFest. I’ll find a space where every community from the many facets of Om can come together. In the spirit of Open Source and co-creation, we can have some booths, flash talks, a gallery of his photography, pen showcase, and whatever other fun ideas people want to contribute. I can’t wait for the beautiful collision of his tech / journalism / Indian party planner / pen / coffee / shoes / photography circles, and probably some niches I couldn’t even imagine. *** A Few Vignettes I have so much to say about Om, but right now I’m working on moderating comments and keeping his website tip-top, so here are a few snippets: Fundamentally, Om was a lover of humanity. He became a fast “regular” everywhere he went. He wouldn’t just buy coffee, he would also learn the name and story of every barista, the dogs and people in South Park. His deep curiosity and respect weren’t just for the fine and famous. It extended to every soul that crossed his path. His encyclopedic knowledge and photographic memory created connections not just in San Francisco, but all around the world wherever we traveled. (I need to pull the stats, but we went to five continents together, including Antarctica.) He loved people and their stories. *** Om and I were an odd couple. We met online through forums and email because Om was one of the earliest adopters of WordPress. We finally met in person in 2004 when I was 20 and he was 38. He connected me to the first investors I ever spoke to, Phil Black, who formed True Ventures, and Tony Conrad, and introduced me to Toni Schneider, my business soul mate, who became like a co-founder as the CEO of Automattic in our first 8 years. And of course on the internet. I don’t know how we would count, but I would guess Om read at least 1 or 2% of the whole thing. ** Om was a voracious learner. I was there when he first used chopsticks, and only a few months later, he knew every sushi restaurant in San Francisco and exactly what he liked at each. *** Om is probably in the top ten in the world for finding things incredibly early. That’s why he has the best usernames! How does one guy get the @om username on WordPress.com in 2005 (user ID 719), Twitter in 2006, Instagram in 2010? The first WordPress meetup was at Chaat Cafe (now Corner) in 2005, 8 people showed up, and Om was one of them. *** One of the biggest lessons I learned from Om is the deep appreciation of craft. When he took an interest in photography or pens, he would somehow find his way to the most obscure, highest-quality expression of that form. “What Would Om Want?” is a question I will always ponder. I want to craft products that would make Om proud. *** Om’s last word was “love.”"]]> ommalik grief friendship death life 2026 bobwier mattmullenweg christophermichel writing howwewrite storytelling blogs blogging humanity curiosity respect stories waysofliving craft love https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6fd042aa68b2/ 2026-05-31T21:59:18+00:00 https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/what-are-we-where-are-we/ robertogreco charlesfoster uncertainty human humans comfort discomfort francescopetrarch petrarch augustine staugustine saintaugustine life living imagodei aristotle philosophy metaphor symbolism modernity bodies health affiliation conscience consciousness relationships morethanhuman multispecies play environment marthanussbaum humanness thinking howwethink christianity storytelling stories quantumtheory quantumphysics quantummechanics iainmcgilchrist experience cosmos edges liminality littoralzone phenomenology whatmatters eustace borders heraclitus hegl 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robertogreco[T]hey live closer to the cross than the rest of us. They carry their disabilities all the time. They don’t get a day off. They don’t get a minute off… And so I find they bring me closer to the cross. They feel it; they sense it; they’re part of it more than I am. I sometimes have to think my way there, whereas they simply guide me – they take me by the hand and bring me there. They show us, they teach us, they tell us — this language runs through the whole piece. Really? Who is this they? People with Down syndrome will always be trotted out in these narratives, I find. What about a man who’s had a sudden significant hearing loss in his 60s? A woman in her twenties who had rheumatoid arthritis that’s now in remission? An amputee? Someone living with a low-lying malaise of depression for decades on end? Are these people the same in any meaningful sense? To be sure: the Christian framework does offer sacrifice as an inevitable part of any human life and an invitation. We hold our many sufferings and, by grace, let them be united with the sacrificial Love that precedes and subsumes them. And yes, disabling conditions may well show up in the Venn diagram of our suffering and our sacrifices; like all givenness in life, those conditions can also be gifts if seen in light of that same Love. All of that mix — our gifts and our suffering as sacrifice — conjoins us to one another as no more and no less than human. If some abstract they is used to teach an edifying lesson, you can be sure that we’re dealing with flat characters: cardboard cutouts and allegorical symbols, not human beings. But of course we do teach other. A person might say: People with cognitive disabilities remind me that I am too impressed by the genetic lottery distribution of book-smart cleverness. But one might also say: People with very few material resources show me that I too often hoard ephemeral pleasures. People in recovery teach me that idolatry lurks everywhere. And we’d also have to say: People with twice as much courage as me — twice as much compassion, twice as much magnanimity — they teach me that virtue. The old idea from Iris Murdoch endures: the most important revelation that stories offer is that other people exist. Stories in fiction and stories unfolding right before our eyes. Other people exist! A miraculous banality, half comedy and half tragedy, and a truth that takes rituals and habits to take seriously. We calibrate our inflated sense of self by learning from others’ gifts and from their suffering, and perhaps we learn the most when those two are almost irreducibly mixed. We — we, all of us — teach each other, insofar as we have the capacity to really learn."]]> sarahendren disability disabilities christianity 2024 objectification josephdutkowsky irismurdoch existence stories storytelling literature genetics cleverness fiction learning howeelearn https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:17eca8bb1f29/ 2025-01-03T04:33:47+00:00 https://troquel.cl/contenidos/gato-en-el-camino-un-cuento-juvenil-de-nicanor-parra/ robertogreconicanorparra 2024 poetry antipoems antipoesía antipoetry antipoemas stories storytelling https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:523bad3aea2b/ 2024-12-07T01:06:35+00:00 https://daily.jstor.org/was-the-story-of-cortes-plagiarized-from-arabic/ robertogreco hernáncortés 2024 spain españa mexico liviagerson latinamerica history myths arabic stories storytelling mohamedabdelrahmanhassan andalusia umayyadcaliphate conquest ottomanempire cuba tariqibnziyad andalucía https://pinboard.in/ 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