2017

5785 Tweets, 93 Publications, 14 Posts

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that's apparently part of it—in practice you have - arrays...

Dec 30 Tweets

@amyhoy that's apparently part of it—in practice you have - arrays of agents each of which has variables (wolves/sheep) - arrays of "patches" that change state as agents act on them and can make new agents (grassy hills) #agents " target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://ccl. northwestern.

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Hmm.

Dec 22 Tweets

@Choire @arctictony @cshirky Hmm.

Articles

Postlight End-of-year Giving 2017

By Paul Ford Dec 20 Articles

Postlight End-of-year Giving 2017 It looks a little Christmas-ey but we have all kinds of people celebrating all kinds of holidays Last year, after our first full year of operation, the people of Postlight identified 33 online charities that we like to support . (Predictably, this led to an essay about the broken online checkout experience at many charity websites.

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Life in Code

By Paul Ford Dec 18

Have we moved too far away from the mainframe? Do engineers need more empathy?

Tweets

i wonder if they'll eventually just let you smush the...

Dec 13 Tweets

i wonder if they'll eventually just let you smush the tweets together, um, call them throgs, or twog twosts. that would be a great outcome, although it would be hard for the people who are all “Twitter is not a place for rational discourse.

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The Medium is the Mission

By Paul Ford Dec 11

Words matter, writing matters and that mission is alive and well at Medium. Paul and Rich talk to Head of Product, Michael Sippey to find out more about making money in publishing, the importance of good content and his three-step approach to product management.

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280 characters means that we can now have TWEET...

By Paul Ford Dec 8 Tweets

280 characters means that we can now have TWEET TEMPLATES!!!!!!!!! [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden’s example.

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Walked me in as an advisor to Medium, brought me in to...

Dec 8 Tweets

@goldman @anildash @mjacobstein @SaraKeiko @rosecrans @Womack @Jayqueeze @rdhodge @mjw @HugoLindgren @Tyrangiel @jimaley @deskbound @richziade Walked me in as an advisor to Medium, brought me in to advise the White House. Both terrifying things that forced me to consider where I could add value.

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Also @djacobs, @jackrusher, @ebpebp, and @bobulate were...

Dec 8 Tweets

@anildash @mjacobstein @SaraKeiko @rosecrans @Womack @Jayqueeze @rdhodge @mjw @HugoLindgren @goldman @Tyrangiel @jimaley @deskbound @richziade Also @djacobs , @jackrusher , @ebpebp , and @bobulate were left off this list only because I changed mouse focus and lost the tweet draft.

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This is a GREAT question. A super-short list of people who...

Dec 8 Tweets

@anildash This is a GREAT question. A super-short list of people who held the door open for me: @mjacobstein , Jane Kosstrin, @SaraKeiko , Leslie Harpold (RIP), @rosecrans , @womack , @jayqueeze , @rdhodge , @anildash , @mjw , @HugoLindgren , @goldman , @tyrangiel , @jimaley , @deskbound , @richziade .

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In the early days of audio recording they would say a radio...

Dec 2 Tweets

@tcarmody @jadedid In the early days of audio recording they would say a radio show was “transcribed” for playback and I like “transcription onto [medium name]” because it implies information loss. Wars can be transcribed onto pillars and speech can be transcribed into long-playing records, etc.

Articles

Driving Traffic

By Paul Ford Nov 29 Articles

It was very interesting to see that BMW has re-launched as a magazine. Above, you can see what it used to look like. And here’s how it looks today: ...

Tweets

I think I actually just find this process fascinating...

Nov 27 Tweets

@rustyk5 @goldman I think I actually just find this process fascinating because, sort of like M&A where enormous value is destroyed by cultural mismatch, the drama recurs over and over in organizations that grow and scale. But there's enough money in the mix to fuel forward motion.

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Well but you want/need to grow and you take VC—who...

By Paul Ford Nov 27 Tweets

@rustyk5 @goldman Well but you want/need to grow and you take VC—who transparently want a specific kind of growth and outcome, that's VC—and then you're in this stressful position where your ethics needs to be connected to growth, which is actually a defensible proposition up to a certain point.

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Breaking Up is Hard to Do: A conversation about Facebook

By Paul Ford Nov 20

Is Facebook a monopoly? This week Paul and Rich tackle the 2-billion-user elephant in the room and go back and forth on two big questions: whether Facebook violates antitrust laws and should be broken up, and how the platform (or its regulators) can solve its rampant fake news problem.

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Right so there is pop/global culture and then there's a...

Nov 20 Tweets

@slavin_fpo @dens @libovness @jrlevine Right so there is pop/global culture and then there's a kind of opt-in culture that you affiliate with because it mirrors your sense of self and represents aspirations, too. Spotify is hard to have a personal relationship with, so it gives us good algorithmic playlists.

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This makes perfect sense, kids are gonna discover things...

Nov 20 Tweets

@DearDara This makes perfect sense, kids are gonna discover things they can have a personal relationship with and measure themselves against. While preserving the option to participate in big dumb pop culture too without much stress about it.

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Wow that is a judo move.

Nov 18 Tweets

@leahculver @breaker @SparkMailApp @Polymail @astro @Edison_apps @ProtonMailHelp @Outlook @SuperhumanCo Wow that is a judo move.

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Oh god, maybe in the far future our consciousnesses are...

Nov 18 Tweets

@avibryant @isaach @mathowie @sippey Oh god, maybe in the far future our consciousnesses are going to be transferred to iCloud and represented by speaking, feeling AI emoji—and we'll spend digital eternity yearning to be used inside of tweets, desperately mugging and hoping for hearts. Actually wait that's now.

Articles

Big Data, Small Effort

By Paul Ford Nov 15 Articles

An awful lot of really interesting public data is made available in CSV format. This is good and bad. If I give you a CSV file, you can open it up in ...

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Matt Lieber has a Gimlet Eye

By Paul Ford Nov 13

From the front lines of the podcast boom: this week Paul and Rich talk to Matt Lieber, co-founder of Gimlet Media, one of the most successful podcast studios in the industry. Topics covered include the company’s origin (and the podcast that chronicled its founding), how Gimlet recruits and trains its editors, the trajectory of the medium, why you shouldn’t play favorites amongst your employees, and how Matt has been re-cast as a sleazy door-to-door salesman in an upcoming ABC comedy produced, directed by, and starring Zach Braff.

Tweets

You have always been real supporters of mine and it's...

Nov 11 Tweets

@sogrady @monkchips @redmonk You have always been real supporters of mine and it's generous and kind, and very mutual, I so respect your work and the way you do it. And it's been great to have peers who understand the transition from writer/cultural type to business owner.

Tweets

Concerned counterprediction: In two years every web...

Nov 10 Tweets

@harrisj @pilhofer @derekwillis @forestgregg Concerned counterprediction: In two years every web platform language is going to compile to the webassembly VM running in the node runtime on the server, hooking into the npm ecosystem, with webpack essentially producing the 2019 version of . dll files for server and client.

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Oh noooooojetooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...

Nov 7 Tweets

@derektmead Oh noooooojetooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooofueloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooodoesntooooooooooooooooooooomeltooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosteeloooooooobeamsooooooooooooooooooooo?

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Rob Dubbin Goes Off-script

By Paul Ford Oct 30

From TV writing to scriptwriting software: this week Paul and Rich talk to Rob Dubbin, former writer and producer for The Colbert Report and The Late Show and current CEO of Scripto. They discuss Scripto’s creation and the special workflow challenges coordinating a late-night show, animal welfare, transitioning from writing to tech, Bluetooth, Google Wave, and more.

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Shutting Down

By Paul Ford Oct 23

How do you pull the plug on a product people love? This week Paul and Rich talk about good and bad ways to shut a digital product, from giving people a path to export their data (good) to writing a blog post entitled “Our Incredible Journey” (bad) (very, very bad).

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Jenn Schiffer Relates to Developers

By Paul Ford Oct 16

Building a community for developers: this week Paul and Gina talk to Jenn Schiffer, community engineer at Fog Creek’s Glitch, a platform for developers to write, share, and remix code that is, in Jenn’s words, helping to “lower the barriers for developers to build great things. ” Topics discussed include development frameworks, how coding is taught, cultures of harassment online and in the tech world, and the (sort of mindblowing!

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@20

By Paul Ford Oct 14 Post

Not any kind of eulogy, thanks. And no header image, either.

Articles

“Irony Doesn’t Scale”

By Paul Ford Oct 10 Articles

“Irony Doesn’t Scale” Last week my co-founder Rich Ziade wrote about what he’s learned and experienced over the last two years of running our product studio, Postlight . Which made me wonder: What have I learned working alongside him?

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“Irony Doesn’t Scale”

By Paul Ford Oct 10 Articles

Last week, my co-founder Rich Ziade wrote about what he’s learned and experienced over the last two years of running our product studio, Postlight. Which ...

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Fighting the Hype

By Paul Ford Oct 9

New technologies vs buzzwords: this week Paul and Rich discuss the challenge of sifting through trends in the technology world—and how they help clients separate what they need from what they think they need. Topics discussed include SOAP, machine learning, Paul’s love of the words “matrix” and “vector,” React, blockchain, the iPhone X “notch,” and, most importantly, paddleboarding.

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Glenn Brown on building a digital-first Obama Foundation

By Paul Ford Oct 2

Building digital tools for active citizenship: this week Paul and Rich talk to Glenn Brown, the chief digital officer at the Obama Foundation. The conversation works through each major stop in his career, from Harvard Law (including the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society) to Creative Commons to Google and YouTube to Twitter to his current role.

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Paul and Rich: Good Problems to Have

By Paul Ford Sep 25

“The bad times, as a manager, are easier than the good times”: this week Paul and Rich discuss a “good problem to have”—managing growth as demand for your work grows. They talk about their personal experiences at Postlight before offering up a series of tips for managing growth, including not taking on too much while still not compromising on the approach and philosophy that got you there.

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Whose Internet Ethics?

Sep 22

Paul Ford explores the ethical standards that Google and Facebook should follow regarding content regulation.

Articles

On Being a Good Platform Citizen

By Paul Ford Sep 20 Articles

On Being a Good Platform Citizen A while ago the Obama Foundation (Full disclosure: they are a much-appreciated Postlight client! Secondary disclosure: we’re hosting an event with them next Thursday, you should come .

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Anna Holmes Stays on Topic

By Paul Ford Sep 18

New horizons in digital media: this week Paul and Rich talk to Anna Holmes, the founder of Jezebel and current SVP of Editorial at First Look Media, where she recently launched the visual storytelling site Topic. com.

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Rich and Paul on Security

By Paul Ford Sep 11

How does Postlight tackle security challenges? This week Paul and Rich begin the episode with takeaways from the Apple iPhone announcement (which they had not yet heard at the time of recording) before diving into a wide-ranging discussion on digital security, from personal worries to the Equifax breach to the steps they take as a company to ensure clients’ data safety.

Tweets

Welcome!!!

Sep 11 Tweets

@isabel_klee @ginatrapani @ChoosePippa @PostlightStudio Welcome!!!

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Oren Mor on Shipping Software at Google

By Paul Ford Sep 4

The challenges of product management at scale: this week Paul and Rich talk to Oren Mor, a head of product at Goldman Sachs and a former product manager at Google. They discuss his entry into the industry, making the technology behind Microsoft’s Kinect, his pivot to finance, and his return to tech at Google, where he spent years shipping ad products.

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No Agenda: A Chat About Meetings

By Paul Ford Aug 28

What makes a good meeting? This week Paul and Rich set out to break down everyone’s least-favorite part of the workday—the meeting—but they wind up breaking down complicated office management dynamics along the way.

Tweets

Danzas.

Aug 25 Tweets

@john_overholt @OddLetters Danzas.

Articles

Decentralize It!

By Paul Ford Aug 22 Articles

There’s a good research report that was just published. It’s called “Defending​ ​Internet​ ​Freedom​ ​through​ ​Decentralization: Back​ ​to​ ​the​ ...

Tweets

Sorry, sorry.

Aug 7 Tweets

@michaelbierut @StarleeKine @nytimes @pentagram Sorry, sorry.

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Breaker breaker! Leah Culver on starting up a new podcast platform

By Paul Ford Jul 31

Changing the podcast user experience: with Paul away, Rich is joined by Postlight’s new partner, Gina Trapani, for a conversation with developer Leah Culver. They discuss her career trajectory, from embracing computer science in college to moving Silicon Valley to founding startups Pownce and Convore to becoming an engineer at Dropbox.

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The Social Dynamics of Legacy

By Paul Ford Jul 24

Understanding an organization’s older technology systems: this week Paul and Rich discuss legacy software and the work cultures around them. Topics discussed include how companies put systems in place and how they become unworkable, resistance to change, clashes between engineering departments and broader company culture, and tips for dealing with the social dynamics when dealing with—and trying to change—legacy software and systems.

Tweets

Spoke.

Jul 18 Tweets

@roseveleth @derektmead Spoke.

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When Borders Collapse: Inside the World of Web Standards with Eric Meyer

By Paul Ford Jul 17

The history and the future of CSS: this week Paul and Rich talk to Eric Meyer, an expert on HTML and CSS for more than two decades, about web design and standards. Touching on both basic and more technical aspects of CSS, topics covered include the development of the style sheet language, the incompatibility of early web browsers, accessibility (or lack thereof) in modern web design, and, of course, what the W3C CSS working group’s after-parties are like.

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Be Our Guest!

By Paul Ford Jul 11 Articles

I wanted to put together a short guide for people who have been asked to be in the media—whether called for comment, asked to appear on a podcast or TV ...

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Rich and Paul on a Decade of Life in the Shadow of the iPhone

By Paul Ford Jul 10

The iPhone at 10: this week Paul and Rich reflect on the iPhone’s 10-year anniversary, discussing everything from Steve Jobs to Apple’s evolution to the future of smartphones to how Jony Ive uses a microwave. Then they debut a new segment where they complain about things that frustrate them; this week, they get out all their feelings about kombucha, the always-broken Google Inbox, and Adobe’s Creative Cloud.

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NYC in the summers

By Paul Ford Jul 9 Articles

Prospect Park NYC in the summers I felt like writing tonight, so… It is unfashionable to express this, but I love New York City in the summer. Tonight I sat outside on the balcony and used our electric grill (less illegal than other grills) to make dinner.

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Jerome Hardaway is Bringing Vets to Tech

By Paul Ford Jul 3

Helping veterans enter the tech world: this week Paul and Rich talk to Jerome Hardaway, a veteran who became a programmer before founding Vets Who Code, a nonprofit that helps other veterans do the same. They discuss the challenges he faced reentering civilian life at the height of the Great Recession, how Vets Who Code was born, the specific assets vets bring to programming and the tech world, and how they overcome the challenges and stereotypes they face.

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Ten Minutes of Silence

By Paul Ford Jun 27 Articles

Ten Minutes of Silence By Paul Ford , Co-founder, Postlight The Museum of Silence, Berlin. Image courtesy Museumderstille, CC BY-SA 4.

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Rich and Paul: Russian to Conclusions

By Paul Ford Jun 26

From Amazon to Russian watches: this week Paul and Rich start by trying to rationalize Amazon’s recent acquisition of Whole Foods, a conversation summed up by Paul as, “You can Occam's Razor this bad boy down. ” They move on to Amazon’s strategy at large, the departure of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, whether our individual actions can ever have any broader effect on the planet, and the harrowing saga of the time Rich tried to buy a watch from a shady Russian website.

Tweets

No!?

Jun 20 Tweets

@markhurst @WFMU @skeptech_ No!?

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Maris Kreizman Wants to Mail You Books

By Paul Ford Jun 19

Analog books in the digital age: this week Paul and Rich talk to Maris Kreizman, editorial director of Book of the Month Club, the 90-year-old book subscription service that shaped American literary history. Topics discussed include BOMC’s revival and current iteration, demographics and preferences in book consumption, materiality of paper books and physical bookshelves, Amazon’s relationship to the rest of the book world, and why Paul just can’t get behind mermaid fiction.

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Gina Trapani Named Postlight Partner

By Paul Ford Jun 14 Articles

Gina Trapani Named Postlight Partner Some Personnel News By Paul Ford and Rich Ziade , Co-Founders, Postlight Portrait by Bill Wadman We’re pleased to announce that Gina Trapani has been named a Partner at Postlight . Since she started at Postlight in 2016, Gina has managed the high-performing engineering teams that delivered some of our most important client products.

Tweets

Me too!

Jun 14 Tweets

@mmcwatters @PulpLibrarian Me too!

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With XSLT2 it's totally fine, see...

Jun 6 Tweets

@anildash @meangrape With XSLT2 it's totally fine, see https://stackoverflow. com/a/3553327, but I'd be more likely to just wrap a Java MD converter into an xpath function?

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Alex Daly Can Kickstart Your Dreams

By Paul Ford Jun 5

Understanding crowdfunding with “The Crowdsourceress”: this week Paul and Rich talk to Alex Daly, a Kickstarter expert whose company, Vann Alexandra, has managed 50 campaigns and raised more than $20 million dollars. They discuss her background and earliest introduction to crowdfunding, a number of memorable campaigns she’s run (for Neil Young, NASA, the MTA, and more), and tips and observations about building both an audience and a successful crowdfunding campaign.

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Jen Dary Wants You To Pluck Up

By Paul Ford May 29

Launching the employee development movement: this week Paul and Rich talk to Jen Dary, the founder of Plucky, “a consulting firm that helps companies with their people. ” They discuss the value of retention over hiring, how to reframe thinking about career paths, Jen’s “employee development” approach to human resources challenges for both people and companies, and a pivotal conversation while stuck in traffic on the Verrazano Bridge.

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John Shankman Explains the Whole Ad Stack

By Paul Ford May 15

Understanding advertising on the web: this week Paul and Rich talk to John Shankman, an internet advertising veteran who has worked at companies like Federated Media, Huffington Post, and The Awl Network. He currently runs Hashtag Labs, a company that helps make ad tech more manageable for independent publishers.

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Sic Transit Gloria: Talking About Tech and Transportation

By Paul Ford May 8

From Uber to Mars to the New York City bus system: this week Paul and Rich talk about the highs and lows of tech industry’s relationship with transportation, where some apps dismantle industries and others knit cities together. The conversation includes Rich’s theories about tech billionaires and space travel, Paul’s paean to express busses and the MTA Bus Time API, and a segment in which Rich roleplays as Travis Kalanick—and Paul gets to tell the Uber CEO exactly how he feels.

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Aaron Lammer Is Not Safe For Work

By Paul Ford May 1

Product management, from journalism to music to podcasts. This week Paul and Rich talk to Aaron Lammer about the three prongs of his career—as the co-founder of Longform, as a musician with Francis and the Lights, and as the host of Stoner, a new podcast about weed.

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May 1, 2017 - Lunch

May 1

Food Qty Calories 100-calorie unit of flavor 2 200 French Fries, 1 oz.

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Laurie Voss Helps Millions of Programmers

By Paul Ford Apr 24

Managing the world’s largest software registry: this week Paul and Rich talk to Laurie Voss, chief operating officer of npm, the JavaScript package manager that gives 7 million programmers worldwide access to hundreds of thousands of packages. They discuss how npm works and the details of its past, present, and future—as well as how removing one tiny piece from it can break the entire internet.

Tweets

Thanks!

Apr 19 Tweets

@sawyerh @PostlightStudio @business Thanks!

Articles

We ship again!

By Paul Ford Apr 18 Articles

We ship again! Postlight and Bloomberg launch a new web tool that makes you smarter, and your news better By Paul Ford , Co-founder, Postlight For desktop, a shiny new Chrome extension; for mobile, a whole new share sheet experience.

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“Oh, Just Innovation Things,” with Michael Shane

By Paul Ford Apr 17

Digital innovation and collaboration: this week Paul and Rich sit down with Michael Shane, the Global Head of Digital Innovation for Bloomberg. They discuss his journey from professional clarinetist to applying for an editorial position on a whim to developing big and small ideas across platforms and divisions at Bloomberg.

Tweets

Bought!

Apr 10 Tweets

@DoogieHorner @jenniferdaniel Bought!

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Internationally Relating With Jeremy Pam

By Paul Ford Apr 3

Geopolitical design thinking: this week Paul and Rich talk to Jeremy Pam, an international relations expert whose career has taken him from Wall Street to Iraq and Afghanistan to MIT to his current position at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. The conversation ranges from sovereign debt relief to New York subcultures to working in a warzone to the Homebrew Computer Club, and they draw parallels between the tech world and geopolitics—and how to reconcile with outcomes your data models never predicted.

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Talking with Kim Stanley Robinson about his global warming epic, New York 2140

By Paul Ford Mar 27

Imagining New York’s underwater future: this week Paul and Rich talk to Kim Stanley Robinson, one of the most renowned science fiction writers alive. The author of nineteen novels, he describes his newest, New York 2140, as both a “post-disaster novel” and a “comedy of coping,” set in a New York City several decades after sea levels have risen and stabilized.

Tweets

thanks!

Mar 26 Tweets

@karenkho @cwarzel @thecultureofme @bechter thanks!

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John Battelle on Making Web Media Possible, and Profitable

By Paul Ford Mar 20

The past, present, and future of advertising on the web: this week Paul and Rich talk to John Battelle, who’s been, in Paul’s words, “an internet entrepreneur as long as there’s been internet entrepreneurship to happen. ” They chronicle his long and varied career, including early days as founding managing editor of Wired, founding Industry Standard during the dot-com boom, the Web 2.

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March 15, 2017 - Breakfast

Mar 15

Food Qty Calories Bread, Whole Wheat, 1 slice 2 180 Omelet, bodega steamtray, 2 oz. 3 513 Potatoes, Mashed, 1 c.

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March 11, 2017 - Lunch

Mar 11

Carb disaster Food Qty Calories Cereal breakfast, typical (2 c. cereal, 1 c.

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Rich and Paul Discuss the Hidden Giants of the Internet

By Paul Ford Mar 6

From Amazon Web Services to YouTube cake videos: this week Paul and Rich go on a journey into the depths of the web, from its infrastructure to its myriad communities. They start with the recent AWS outage that left sites large and small scrambling and somehow find their way to the well-compensated YouTubers, train enthusiasts, “gastro-pornography,” and relatability—including the aesthetics of “Track Changes” itself.

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Tech at the ACLU: In practice, and in theory

By Paul Ford Feb 27

The technologists defending the Constitution: this week Paul and Rich talk to two people with very different roles at the American Civil Liberties Union. Marco Carbone, Associate Director for Internet Technology, manages the ACLU’s website, while Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Senior Staff Technologist for the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, does policy-oriented work, especially on digital privacy rights.

Articles

Forensic Storytelling

By Paul Ford Feb 26 Articles

Forensic Storytelling French spy captured during the Franco-Prussian War . L’espion — Alphonse de Neuville — 1880 WayMo , the self-driving car part of Google, has filed a complaint against Uber .

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February 22, 2017 - Non-event

Feb 22

asdfgl;kjasd;p;alsdjf;'lpasdfp[ leg in pain jason had heart attack enough enough enough desp to lose three pounds to jump a weight on the medical scale Weight: 392.

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Lara Hogan on Engineering and Public Speaking

By Paul Ford Feb 20

Demystifying public speaking: this week Paul and Rich talk to Lara Hogan, an engineering director at Etsy whose most recent book, Demystifying Public Speaking, aims to help get more diverse voices onstage in the tech world. Topics covered include overcoming specific fears before getting onstage, how to process feedback, and some of her own experiences onstage, from highlights on down to one particular public-speaking horror show.

Articles

The Beautiful TI-108

By Paul Ford Feb 15 Articles

The Internet is inundated with lists, but nonetheless I think it’s a good exercise to make personal lists of great things. For example in the past I’ve ...

Articles

The Beautiful TI-108

By Paul Ford Feb 15 Articles

The Beautiful TI-108 By Paul Ford , co-founder, Postlight The Internet is inundated with lists, but nonetheless I think it’s a good exercise to make personal lists of great things. For example in the past I’ve written about the “ great works of software .

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Ryan and Dan in a World of VICE (News)

By Paul Ford Feb 13

From the front lines of the changing world of media: this week Paul and Rich talk to a client, VICE News, specifically editor Ryan McCarthy and general manager Dan Fletcher. They talk about VICE News and VICE more broadly, outline Dan and Ryan’s careers, and talk about the current media landscape and VICE’s position within it.

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Jeffrey Zeldman on news design, part two

By Paul Ford Feb 8 Articles

Jeffrey Zeldman on news design, part two Not long ago we published a report by our friend Jeffrey Zeldman on some experimental news design work that was happening under the auspices of the Poynter Design Challenge . Jeffrey has returned with Part II of that effort—in which he shows more of his own work.

Tweets

hi Sana!

Feb 7 Tweets

@sanarao @realDonaldTrump @PostlightStudio hi Sana!

Articles

Against Storytelling

By Paul Ford Feb 5 Articles

Against Storytelling My co-founder Rich Ziade and I are out in San Francisco for a conference. The hotel we’re in is very…designed.

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Against Storytelling

By Paul Ford Feb 5 Articles

My co-founder Rich Ziade and I are out in San Francisco for a conference. The hotel we’re in is very…designed. I think the designers wanted the rooms to ...

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Prashant Agarwal on Scaling Design

By Paul Ford Jan 30

Why you need prototypes and Powerpoints: this week Paul and Rich talk to Prashant Agarwal, the VP of Design at McKinsey Digital Labs. They talk about his career trajectory, from studying business to co-founding a startup to product management to design, and his current role at McKinsey, where he rethinks design challenges at scale.

Tweets

great!

Jan 30 Tweets

@grantwhunter @richziade great!

Articles

Guest Post: Jeffrey Zeldman at the Poynter Design Challenge

By Paul Ford Jan 29 Articles

Guest Post: Jeffrey Zeldman at the Poynter Design Challenge Our friend Jeffrey Zeldman recently participated in the Poynter Design Challenge— “a project to create new visual models for digital news publications” sponsored by William R. Hearst III, hosted by the Poynter Institute , and directed by publication designer Roger Black .

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Drew Bell on How Standards Stick Around

By Paul Ford Jan 24 Articles

Drew Bell on How Standards Stick Around Today Drew Bell , Engineer at Postlight, writes in about something that at first seems kind of obscure—the fact that weather service alerts are often IN ALL CAPS. You know: “SEVERE WINDS WILL CAN DAMAGE ROOFS AND MAY DISLODGE SIGNS.

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Thanks to You, I Get It Now

By Paul Ford Jan 21 Articles

Thanks to You, I Get It Now A Grateful Note Dear Social Media Friend, You know how they say that some arguments don’t make sense in 140 characters or less? Well, today your arguments destroyed me.

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Going Deep on a Checkbox

By Paul Ford Jan 4 Articles

Yesterday I wrote a little bit about the experience of giving money via charitable websites, and I criticized not-for-profit websites that ask their users ...

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Going Deep on a Checkbox

By Paul Ford Jan 4 Articles

Going Deep on a Checkbox Yesterday I wrote a little bit about the experience of giving money via charitable websites , and I criticized not-for-profit websites that ask their users to “make a monthly donation”— My expectation was to give a one-time gift. Many of the sites had “Make this a monthly donation” as an option.

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Shut Up and Take My Money!

By Paul Ford Jan 3 Articles

Shut Up and Take My Money! User experience notes from 33 online charities By Paul Ford , Co-founder, Postlight Oh god not this Before the holidays, the people of Postlight came up with a list of charities .

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Shut Up and Take My Money!

By Paul Ford Jan 3 Articles

Before the holidays, the people of Postlight came up with a list of charities. I liked learning about all the different causes supported by the people who ...