I have no idea when I first started following Steve Silberman online, but he soon followed me back and for many years (decades?) now we have connected across multiple online social networks. So I was deeply saddened to learn of his passing. He was an interesting and multifaceted individual: a former assistant to Allen Ginsberg, a deadhead (nobody's perfect), a close personal friends of the singer David Crosby, a tech writer, and the author of one of the most important books on autism.