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Paul Ford

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

A Grand Unified Theory of Buying Stuff

The Most Efficient Way to Debug the Simulation

Climate Stress Was Getting Me Down, So I Made a Clicker Game

Climate Change Is the New Dot-Com Bubble

A Field Guide for Nature-Resistant Nerds

Crypto Isn’t About Money. It’s About Fandom

Why Humans Are So Bad at Seeing the Future

My Dream of the Great Unbundling

So You Want to Prepare for Doomsday

The Secret, Essential Geography of the Office

Love the USPS? Join the Infrastructure Appreciation Society!

It's Time to Pick Classes for the 2073-74 School Year!

The Power and Paradox of Bad Software

‘Real’ Programming Is an Elitist Myth

The Infinite Loop of Supply Chains

We Are All Livestreamers Now, and Zoom Is Our Stage

Stones, Clocks, and What We Should Actually Leave Behind

How Technology Explodes the Concept of ‘Generations’

Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry

Netflix and Google Books Are Blurring the Line Between Past and Present