One Last Thing
Many of us don’t want cars; let’s create a world where we don’t need them, either
One Last Thing
How does a person live on this warming planet, at the end of 2018?
Fandom, corporate media, and San Diego Comic-Con
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I arrive in San Diego on Wednesday afternoon via a packed Pacific Surfliner. There’s a general air of weary anticipation onboard, as though we are already tired of something we actively signed up for. The crowd is wall-to-wall pop culture references, shirts and hats and bags, dotted with a handful of confused people I can only describe as Very Southern California: tan, breezy, and apparently unaware they booked a ticket on the train to Comic-Con.
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On giving yourself permission
This time last year, I was in crisis mode. I think a lot of us were. There was something paralyzing about the anticipation—and the uncertainty—of the shape of the year that would follow. In moments of personal crisis, I lose all sense of time and scale; it’s impossible for me to look past the present moment, to even abstractly conceive of the weeks, months, or years to come. There was a bit of that for me as 2016 came to a close. Intellectually you know you can’t stay in this unsustainable mental space forever—but you can’t begin to imagine how and when you’ll emerge from it.
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Is Facebook a monopoly? This week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade 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…
The transcript for Track Changes episode 92, on Facebook, fake news, regulation, and monopolies
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Paul Ford: Hi, you're listening to Track Changes, the podcast of Postlight, a digital product studio at 101 Fifth Avenue in New York City. My name is Paul Ford, and I'm the co-founder and co-host of Track Changes.
Rich Ziade…
From the front lines of the podcast boom: this week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade 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…
The transcript for Track Changes episode 91, a conversation with Gimlet co-founder Matt Lieber
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Paul Ford: Hi, you’re listening to Track Changes, the podcast of Postlight, a digital product studio at 101 Fifth Avenue in New York City. My name is Paul Ford. …
Is there a way to fix LinkedIn? This week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade return to one of their favorite hate-topics: LinkedIn is, in Paul’s words, “a remarkable affront to everything that we care about and believe in.” They discuss “human spam,” UX gripes with the platform, Paul’s methods for…
The transcript for Track Changes episode 90, yet another conversation about the hellscape that is LinkedIn
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Paul Ford: Hi, this is Track Changes, the official podcast of Postlight, a digital product studio at 101 Fifth Avenue in New York City. We build your apps, we build your web platforms, and your responsive web applications. We’re good…
