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Paul Ford

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Paul Ford is a writer, programmer, and software entrepreneur. He lives in Brooklyn.

AI as Normal

The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down

Oct 27, 2025 6:00 AM

Model Citizens

Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It

May 14, 2024 8:00 AM

Metric System

Forget Growth. Optimize for Resilience

Jan 3, 2024 9:00 AM

Ideas

To Own the Future, Read Shakespeare

Jan 2, 2024 8:00 AM

Ideas

Why Tech Bros and Politicians Can’t Really Connect

Sep 25, 2023 8:00 AM

Ideas

My Tips for a Killer Product Launch

Jul 31, 2023 8:00 AM

Ideas

My Father’s Death in 7 Gigabytes

Jun 15, 2023 7:00 AM

Ideas

How the Piano Helped Me Fall Back in Love With Tech

May 1, 2023 9:00 AM

Ideas

So Your Kid Wants to Be a Twitch Streamer

Apr 25, 2023 7:00 AM

Ideas

God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter

Feb 12, 2023 7:00 AM

Ideas

A New Drug Switched Off My Appetite. What’s Left?

Feb 3, 2023 9:00 AM

Ideas

A Tweet Before Dying

Nov 10, 2022 7:00 AM

Ideas

Dear Artists: Do Not Fear AI Image Generators

Nov 3, 2022 9:00 AM

Ideas

What Modern Humans Can Learn From Ancient Software

Sep 15, 2022 9:00 AM

Ideas

Forget Disruption. Tech Needs to Fetishize Stability

Aug 3, 2022 8:00 AM

IDEAS

Life Is Great in the Age of No Secrets

Jun 12, 2022 7:00 AM

Ideas

The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake?

May 26, 2022 9:00 AM

Stop the Clock

Time Got So Much Weirder. The World Needs a New Lexicon

Apr 14, 2022 8:00 AM

Ideas

I Finally Reached Computing Nirvana. What Was It All For?

Apr 1, 2022 7:00 AM

Sneakbrowsing

The Best Way to Learn Online? Be a Lurker

Feb 15, 2022 9:00 AM