Om Malik has died (opens in new tab)

664 points by minimaxir 8 hours ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 65 comments | | | | | - | - | - | | | | About 11 years ago, I cold-emailed Om for his guidance\. I was an absolute nobody, living thousands of miles away\. Not only did Om patiently explain how I should think about my career, he kept in touch over the past decade checking in on how I was doing\. I left journalism last year to do something else -- coincidentally, again, following Om's footsteps -- and had been mean...