The Postlight Podcast BY Paul Ford Podcasts and Radio 450 Sections Tech History: Who Really Made The Internet? Dealing With Cycles: A Conversation with Michael Shaoul Playing it Safe: Authentication in 2019 Technical Definitions: A conversation with Wordnik’s founder Erin McKean Improving Slack: The Postlight team on developing their new product Dash A New Improved Postlight: On Rebranding at Postlight and Beyond Textmoji: A New Project from Postlight Labs The Private Network: Paul and Rich on Intranets Shared Goals: Paul, Rich, and Gina on Statements of Work Lessons We’ve Learned Over the Years Catalyst Live! Part 1: Turning Chaos Into Your North Star Was Storming the Capitol a Technology Issue? Catalyst Live! Part 2: Claiming Territory Amidst Chaos Fender Digital: With Ethan Kaplan How It's Made: 300 Episodes of the Postlight Podcast! Defining Content Strategy: With Chappell Ellison Retaining Talent: Tim Meaney Returns! (Icon)ic Design: With Jim Nielsen and Michael Flarup The DNA of NDAs Content and Discontent Make HTML Great Again Not Safe For Work A Conversation with VICE News Analog Books in a Digital Age Anil Dash: From Entrepreneur to Activist The Web is—Dead? Going Off Script: A Conversation on SDKs The 2020 Sh*tshow: Paul and Rich on what needs to change in the coming year Internal Startups: Why You Should Proceed With Caution The Three-second Rule: How to Destroy Your LinkedIn Profile Accountability Tools: Paul and Rich on How They Stay On Track Messy App Ecosystems: Paul and Rich on app stores Level Up by Writing Things Down: Jojo Giltsoff on Managing Large Teams On Managing Your AWS Bills: With Corey Quinn The Hidden Giants of the Internet A Good Omelet: 2017 in Review Flickr and iCloud and Dropbox, Oh My Inspect Element: Diving Into The Complexity Of The Web Screen Time and Me Time: Let's Talk About Platform Obsessions What Harper Reed Thinks: A Conversation With Obama’s Former CTO Can We Understand Coders?: A Conversation with Technology Writer Clive Thompson Kill 'Em All: What's Coming for Giant Platforms Upgrade: A How-To for Digital Transformation Stepping Away to Think Better: Paul and Rich on Making Time for Creative Thinking Stop Touching It: Paul and Rich on Software Updates Monetizing Your Brand: An interview with New York Times journalist Taylor Lorenz Paul and Rich on Shifting Priorities in a Pandemic Knock-On Effects: With Parse.ly’s Andrew Montalenti and Sachin Kamdar Reactive Sales: Building New Client Relationships in the Time of COVID Can You Ship It? The Game of Product Management Breaking Up is Hard to Do Version Control: Is There a Better Way to Manage Change? The Elephant In the Room The Price Tag for Climate Change: With Probable Futures Digital Problem Solving with Perry Hewitt Risks vs. Rules: Why It's Important to Differentiate Visual Math: Paul and Gina on Account from Postlight Labs Inside the World of Web Standards Keeping Remotes Close A Talk about Public Speaking Design Takes Command No Agenda Venturing Into America’s Prison Problem: A Conversation with Chris Redlitz A Conversation about Shipping Software Delivery of the Skies: With Star Simpson, CEO of ThereCraft A Conversation about Digital Security Building a Digital-first Foundation Fighting the Hype in Technology A Community of Developers Going Off Script A Conversation with Matt Lieber Spreadsheets Are Off the Table Death in Feeds A Battle for the Net (Again) The Currency of Attention Show — Don’t Tell: Presenting to the C-Suite Painless Project Management: With Clubhouse.io’s Andrew Childs Defining Product Management Dynamically Linked Library (of Congress) Are Smart Homes the New HVAC? Computing is Everywhere: Bret Victor and Dynamicland Is Your Religion Art or Technology? The Internet Got Shrinkwrapped Introducing Postlight Lebanon How To Cope With Facebook…Or Not Welcome to Your CMS: Converging Management Systems Understanding Deception: Rex Sorgatz on Misinformation Meetings and the Question Mark Making Sense of Capitalism and Ethics with Christian Madsbjerg The Glut of the Platform Economy Less Machine Learning, More Human Learning: A Conversation with Charles Broskoski Earnestness on the Blockchain: Manoush Zomorodi and Zig Zag Privacy, Data Encryption, and the Law The Evolution of Software More Than Type and Color: Talking to Robyn Kanner When Great Experience Design Gets Penalized Why We Fail: A Conversation with Victor Lombardi The Innovator’s Dilemma Getting Creative with Marketing: Rick Webb on the Agency World Bad Blood: Megalomania in Silicon Valley Scaling Ethics While Scaling Platforms Design Matters: A Conversation on Digital Transformation Turning The Digital Product Studio On Its Head: In Conversation with Jules Ehrhart The Leaky World of Tech Reporting: A Conversation With Louise Matsakis Can Design Be Open Source?: A Conversation with Dylan Field about Figma Is Amazon Good for Society? Because It's Coming for New York Small Gestures, Extraordinary Impacts: A Conversation With Allan Chochinov Meeting the First Promise 2018 in Review: Tech, Geopolitics, and Fortnite Dances So You Want to Work With an Agency: How They Get You How Can Data Drive Digital Journalism?: A Conversation With Chartbeat’s Josh Schwartz Click to Add Title: Making a Better Pitch Deck Back to Words: Getting Past Clutter Online Letting Design Function: Product Designers Talk Relay Managing at My Worst and at My Best: Paul and Rich On Decision Making as a Leader Learning to Code to Understand Technology Levelling the Playing Field: A Look at the Spotify-Apple Feud Chasing Paper in a Digital World Marketing Funnels: You’re Just a Cog in the Machine Dear Technology, We Still Love You: Paul and Rich Come to Tech’s Defense Getting People To Click: A Conversation With Banner Ad Expert Al Rotches Automating Human Behavior: The Social Contract of Bad Apps Facebook’s Oversight Board: On Policing the Platform Ed Tech: With Clay Shirky Software Centralization vs. Decentralization: Which Is Best? Constructive Productivity: 5 Tools To Help You Work Better Regulating Product Decisions: With Jason Goldman Managing Product in the Matrix: With Google’s Ben Wilson No AI Needed: Fix the Old Before Bringing in the New Changing With the Times: Do You Need a Culture of Fear to Force Change? Resilient Management: A conversation with management expert Lara Hogan Creating Need: Paul and Rich put a critical lens on new industry trends Meta Computers and Passive Billing: Paul and Rich on Various Things Content Management for Enterprise : A conversation with Percolate’s Noah Brier Communications Decency: On Facebook and Twitter...Again Do Humans Need Privacy: Paul and Rich on Superhuman and Zoom Synthesizing Feedback: The 6 Mistakes You’re Making With Your Product — Part 3 Playing With Fire: Why Email Is a Dangerous Game The Design System Has To Reflect The Business: Paul and Rich on Twitter’s Redesign Moving Things Along: On Why Workflow Is So Hard Analyze Society and You Have A Trend: A conversation with The Markup’s Adrianne Jeffries Can We Sue The Internet?: Paul and Rich on Holding The Internet to Account That Will Never Work: A Conversation with Netflix Co-founder Marc Randolph Getting to the Heart of the Web Economy: A Look at the HiQ v. LinkedIn Lawsuit Inspect Element: What’s Hiding Behind the Web Page You’re Looking At? Digital Capitalism: Tech That Gets Rid of Tech Warning Signs: What to Look Out For When Working in the Tech Industry Finding the Right Fit: On Hiring Managers and Building Trust QORE: On Postlight’s Secret Recipe for Project Management Going Codeless: Is this the way of the future? How to Make Sales and Influence People: Paul and Rich on How to Sell Software Layers of Dirt: Paul and Rich on Backlog-Driven Development Promoting Digital at the Met: What does it take to be the CDO at The Metropolitan Museum of Art? How to Get Hired: Paul and Rich on good interviewing practices Tools of Persuasion: On Perfecting the Slide Deck Wins Along the Way: The 6 Mistakes You’re Making With Your Product — Part 1 User Friendly: A History Top Trends of 2020 Optimizing Your Setup: The 6 Mistakes You’re Making With Your Product — Part 2 Restricting Freedom for More Freedom: On the Parallels Between Wearing a Mask and Regulating Tech Emblematic Emoji: With Google’s Jennifer Daniel What’s in a Name?: On Words and Meaning Vanity Purchases: On Elon Musk and Twitter Manage Your Tasks: An Interview with Doist Founder Amir Salihefendic The New New Normal: Five Tips for This Stage of the Pandemic The Anti-RFP: Paul and Rich on the RFP Process Fact or Fiction: On Facts Not Doing What You Think They Do Politics For Your Eyes: A Conversation with Yello’s Hunter Schwarz What Motivates People?: Paul, Rich and Gina on Leadership What Comes First, Brand or Product?: Paul and Rich on Doing Brand First Pieces Loosely Joined: On the Mess That Is Enterprise Software Smart Home: 10 Tips for Working Remotely Diving Deep and Enjoying Life: A Conversation with InVision’s Mike Davidson Life in the Clouds: The Present and Future of Cloud Hosting Services Pay to Win: Paul, Rich and Jeremy Mack on the World of Video Games Contact Tracing: The New Apple-Google Collaboration Detente vs. Dreamer: On the Two Types of Software Stakeholders Resilience and Probability: With Tim Meaney on Change Post-COVID Structuring Communications: How to Keep Your Team Aligned and Accountable Is it Time to Build?: On Marc Andreessen’s Viral Article Data as Conspiracy: Using Data to Manipulate the Masses Is it Time to Build? Part 2: How to Get What We Need in a Marketplace Society Flight Simulator: On the World of Microsoft Inside Facebook: With Writer and Journalist Steven Levy Big Red Button: Dealing with Unreasonable Asks Building Prince of Persia: With Video Game Great Jordan Mechner Voting by Phone: Why It Isn’t Possible...Yet Stability vs. Scalability: Why Structural Change Is So Hard How Design Makes the World: With Author and Designer Scott Berkun Happiness Engineer: On Job Descriptions and the Culture They Represent A Case of the Monday.com: The Rise of Project Management Tools Instrument Flying: Why Flying a Plane Is Like Running a Business Catalyst: Introducing Postlight’s New Whitepaper Revamping a Famous Monkey: On Mailchimp’s New Developer Space Pleasant Internet Things: On the Web That Makes Us Happy Keep the Train Moving: On Digital Transformation at the MTA WordPress and Beyond: With Matt Mullenweg 3 Topics: On Going Back to the Office, Buzzwords, and Salesforce Alternate Reality: What We Would Have Done Differently Friendly Competition: With Robots & Pencils’ Tracey Zimmerman Are Conspiracy Theories Just Bad Theories With Good UX? Getting Vaccinated: On the Design Barriers to Getting Your COVID Shot Securing Access To Community and Capital: With Shelly Bell Growing Pains: On the Trials and Tribulations of Growing Your Business Patients Need Patients: With Lyfebulb’s Dr. Karin Hehenberger Decentralized Finance: Tim Meaney on the Boom of DeFi and Cryptocurrencies Scaling: Learning From Vaccine Distribution No FOMO: Why You Don’t Need to Worry About Those Tech Trends...Yet Relationship First, Software Second: On Agency Product Management A Love Letter to the Office: On the Pros of In-Person Work Managing Product Managers: With Postlight’s Vicky Volvovski Assume Positive Intent: With Postlight's Michael Shane Not Much Has Changed: Rich on Programming in Python Product Talk: With Teresa Torres Be the Thing You Wish You Had: With Bloom Works’ Lauren Lockwood & Emily Wright-Moore Out of the Agenda and Into the Story: On Improving Your Meetings How to Talk to Billionaires New Leadership: Paul and Rich Pass the Torch Transferring Motivation: On Creating the Space to Get Things Done Data as a Language: With Postlight’s Reed Whitmont Incremental Revolution: On TypeScript With Orta Therox Forms Have Function: With the MTA’s Joshua Gee A Remote Success Story: With Postlight’s Vicky Volvovski Speaking to the Room: With Bill Smartt New Year, New Leadership: On Successful Transitions Show Your Work: On Determining Your Professional Path User On Board: With Michael McWatters Securing Buy-In and Budget: Twitter Space Live Event Catalyst Live! Part 3: Steadfast Against Scope Creep Kids and Phones: On Parenting and Technology Is Facebook the New Marlboro?: On the Outage and Regulation Skyscrapers vs. Startups: Why Did California Win Technology? Through the Looking Glass: With the Creators of Glass How We Got Here — Part 2: On the Promises of Web3 Breaking Down the Metaverse: With Choire Sicha A Constellation of Tools: How We Work Today How We Got Here — Part 1: On the History of the Web A Podcast From the Year 2058: Paul and Rich Report on the Future On Web3, Again: This Time With Michael Sippey Too Many Monkeys: Handing Back Responsibilities With Tony Haile There’s No Escape From Physical Reality: Why Web3 Is Boring Efficiency Is Highly Overrated: Some Life Advice Our Credible Journey: On Joining NTT DATA A Little Chat about Terrible Failure The New, Big Media Meet our New Podcast: Track Changes Product Management — and Pivoting Explaining All of Your Choices Theory and Practice: Tech at the ACLU Who’s Gonna Drive You Home? Craig Mod on Great Design and Long Journeys — Part 2 How Technology Becomes Creepy Engineering on Stage The Man Who Killed Clippy, Part 2 Gina Trapani: Coder to Lifehacker and Back Again “The Other Side of Fate”: A Chat with Rex Sorgatz Postlight at One Introducing Postlight Mercury—An Easy, Free AMP Converter “Weapons of Math Destruction” Scaling Design A Conversation About New York 2140 What We Chat About When We Chat About Chat Gina Trapani has things TODO.txt Internationally Relating “Oh, Just Innovation Things”: A Chat with Michael Shane Good Problems to Have How to Shut Down a Digital Product Helping Millions of Programmers Sic Transit Gloria: Tech and Transportation Paul and Rich Try to Talk About Something Else But End Up Complaining About LinkedIn Again The Social Dynamics of Legacy Systems Life in Code: Programmer and Author Ellen Ullman The Whole Internet is Sneakers The Global Internet: Does it Really Exist? Apple vs. the FBI and Paul vs. Rich Paul and Rich Exchange Frank Views 101 Fifth Avenue Explaining the Whole Ad Stack Staying on Topic Introducing Postlight Labs Consider Yourself Notified Breaker, breaker! On Starting a Podcasting Platform Medium in the Middle Decentralized Journalism: A Conversation with Maria Bustillos Vendor Madness: Resist the Lure of the “Super Team” Postlight Is Three It’s Good to Be the Idiot: A Conversation on 3D and Diving into New Technology The Problem with Software: A Conversation With Former Microsoft Programmer Adam Barr Product-Led Growth: A conversation with Variance’s Noah Brier and James Gross Plucky Approaches to Human Resources A Chat about Yahoo In Studio with Jeffrey Zeldman Should Twitter Delete @realDonaldTrump? Add Me to Your Professional Network Camille and Kellan are Friends (and CTOs) A Conversation about Magic and Loss The Silence of the Cams Helping NYC Public Schools A Company to Kickstart Your Dreams A Decade of Life in the Shadow of the iPhone Track Changes Q&A A Conversation with Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand, Part One Put Your Phone Down Craig Mod on Great Design and Long Journeys — Part 1 The Nature of Time and the Terrors of Productivity Takin’ it Meta A Conversation with Matt Haughey A Conversation with Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand, Part Two A Conversation about Amazon and Whole Foods Bringing Military Veterans to Tech The Man Who Killed Clippy, Part 1 A Look at Emergency Alerts Postlight Podcast Year in Review: 2016 Brightcove, Big City: A Conversation about Video Found in Translation Q&A & Mission Statements Natalie Podrazik: iOS Developer and User-research Spy How to Build the Ideal Tech-Media Conglomerate A Chat with the Founders of Clover From Subtraction to Adobe A Conversation about Virtual Reality Rational Geographic Profitable Online Media Flamethrowers, Pinterest, and Global Connectivity: Looking Forward to 2019 What if Al Capone wrote C++?: Evan Ratliff on the The Mastermind, Paul Le Roux Reflecting on Gmail 15 Years Later You Don't Release Software, You Let It Escape: Paul and Rich on Shipping Deep inside Facebook and Silicon Valley with Jon Lax The FBI vs. Apple and Rich vs. Paul Presidential web platforms ranked Anil Dash, Capitalist to Activist Too Something? To Fail Meet Mercury, an automatic AMP engine for any website Q&A Khoi Vinh—from Subtraction to Adobe Virginia Heffernan—Magic, Loss, and Mercy Killing Horses Rex Sorgatz—the other side of Fate Mayer Lemons—a chat about Yahoo’s recent acquisitions Karen McGrane—Content and discontent Event Verizon Elizabeth Spiers is Multi-dimensional This Is Haughey Do It Julia Pimsleur—Found in Translation Rational Geographic—Map Chat with Aaron Straup Cope Who’s Gonna Drive You Home—Talking Self-Driving Cars Brightcove, Big City—talking video with David Mendels “See media for pic”—a conversation on emergency alerts Clover Newsletter—Turning over a new leaf (or four) with founders Liza Darwin and Casey Lewis Tom Vanderbilt explains all of your choices In the studio with Jeffrey Zeldman Cathy O'Neil on “Weapons of Math Destruction” Q&A: Taking listener questions, and mission statements Michael Sippey on Product Management—and Pivoting Colin Smith Has a Plan to Help Hundreds of NYC Public Schools Nicholas Carr on How Technology Becomes Creepy Prashant Agarwal on Scaling Design Ryan and Dan in a World of VICE (News) Lara Hogan on Engineering and Public Speaking Tech at the ACLU: In practice, and in theory Rich and Paul Discuss the Hidden Giants of the Internet Alan Burdick on the Nature of Time and the Terrors of Productivity John Battelle on Making Web Media Possible, and Profitable Talking with Kim Stanley Robinson about his global warming epic, New York 2140 Internationally Relating With Jeremy Pam “Oh, Just Innovation Things,” with Michael Shane Laurie Voss Helps Millions of Programmers Aaron Lammer Is Not Safe For Work Sic Transit Gloria: Talking About Tech and Transportation John Shankman Explains the Whole Ad Stack Jen Dary Wants You To Pluck Up Alex Daly Can Kickstart Your Dreams Maris Kreizman Wants to Mail You Books Rich and Paul: Russian to Conclusions Jerome Hardaway is Bringing Vets to Tech Rich and Paul on a Decade of Life in the Shadow of the iPhone When Borders Collapse: Inside the World of Web Standards with Eric Meyer The Social Dynamics of Legacy Breaker breaker! Leah Culver on starting up a new podcast platform Speech Coach Bill Smartt Offers His Best Advice for Better Public Speaking No Agenda: A Chat About Meetings Oren Mor on Shipping Software at Google Rich and Paul on Security Anna Holmes Stays on Topic Paul and Rich: Good Problems to Have Glenn Brown on building a digital-first Obama Foundation Fighting the Hype Jenn Schiffer Relates to Developers Shutting Down Rob Dubbin Goes Off-script Matt Lieber has a Gimlet Eye Breaking Up is Hard to Do: A conversation about Facebook The Medium is the Mission Life in Code Getting on the Inside A Good Omelet Venturing Into America’s Prison Problem The Three Second Rule : How to Destroy Your Linked In Profile The Elephant In The Room: Paul and Rich talk to Chris O’Neill, CEO of Evernote. Are Smart Homes the new HVAC?: Paul and Rich discuss the pros and cons of a connected home. Is Your Religion Art or Technology?: A Conversation with Aaron Lammer Computing is Everywhere : A Conversation with Bret Victor Who Really Made The Internet?: Claire L. Evans on Tech History Making Sense of Capitalism and Ethics: A Conversation with Christian Madsbjerg An Earnest Blockchain: Manoush Zomorodi on Creativity and the Internet The Evolution of Software with Tim Meaney Can You Ship It? : When Design and Engineering Isn't Enough More Than Type & Color: A Conversation With Robyn Kanner Version Control : A Conversation On Tracking Changes Putting A Fine On Great Experience Design The Innovator's Dilemma Getting Creative with Marketing: Rick Webb's Agency Bad Blood: A Conversation on Megalomania in Silicon Valley Going Off Script : A Coversation on SDKs Kill 'Em All : All Giant Platforms Eventually Self-Destruct Announcing Upgrade! Anniversary of Leadership Can Design Be Open Source?: A conversation with Dylan Field about Figma and collaborating on design Screen Time and Me Time : A Conversation On Platform Obsessions Is Amazon Good for Society? Because It's Taking On New York. Design Gestures With Extraordinary Impact : A Conversation With Allan Chochinov Meeting the First Promise : How Showing Value is Your Most Valuable Political Tool Managing At My Worst and At My Best Learning to Code to Understand Technology | A Conversation with Andrew Smith You Don't Release Software, You Let It Escape: Paul and Rich on Shipping Understanding Coders: A Conversation with Technology Writer Clive Thompson Layers of Dirt: Paul and Rich on feature driven development Pay to Win: Paul, Rich and Jeremy Mack on the World of Video Games in 2020 Resilience and Probability: Tim Meaney on Dealing with Change Post-COVID Risks vs. Rules: Why it's Important to Differentiate Communications Decency: On Facebook & Twitter...Again Postlight Turns Five: We Share Some Lessons We’ve Learned Over the Years Introducing Postlight Podcast Friendly Competition: With Robots & Pencils’ Tracey Zimmerman Assume Positive Intent: With Postlight's Michael Shane Be the Thing You Wish You Had: With Bloom Works’ Lauren Lockwood & Emily Wright-Moore How It's Made: 300 Episodes of the Postlight Podcast! Looking for Leadership: On Identifying and Building Up Leaders Doer to Delegator: On Scaling Postlight In the Jungle: On Leadership Metaphors Irrational Magic: The Trade of Making New Things with Roy Bahat Where’s That Thing?: On Impatience as a Leader Be Ready for Success: Building for the Next Phase Let the User Keep Going: On Speed as a Feature Building Trust and Providing Solutions: Postlight’s Senior Leadership Team on What Makes a Great Leader Shipping Earlier With Less: On Determining Deadlines Remotes Week: On Getting Together Roadmap vs. Backlog: On Product Thinking Pragmatism and Panache: On Managing Priorities for Delivering Quality Products It’s Never a No-Brainer: On Streaming Services
Building Trust and Providing Solutions: Postlight’s Senior Leadership Team on What Makes a Great Leader