Paul Ford

@ftrain

CEO . Writing another book. Sometimes at (What Is Code?), often at . paul.ford@postlight.com h(e|im)

Manhattan, NY/Brooklyn, NY
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    May 13

    We absolutely all need to calm down, and yet there is absolutely no chance that we will all calm down.

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  2. Retweeted
    22 hours ago

    What has four letters, occasionally has twelve letters, always has six letters, but never has five letters.

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  3. May 26

    I feel there's a wonderful opportunity to be an apple snob who either doesn't eat any apple cultivar first introduced after 1900, or even better, who refuses any apple bred before 2000. "I just take apples very seriously."

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  4. May 26

    Wikipedia knows A LOT about apples

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  5. Retweeted
    May 25

    Vicky Volvovski went from a fan of the podcast to the new Director of Product Management at . Now that she's in, & see if Postlight is any different from what she perceived as a listener:

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  6. Retweeted
    May 25

    The Internet Archive has a job open for media relations manager. It's open to remote workers.

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  7. May 25

    New Burial definitely delivering in the softly inhaling department.

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  8. May 23

    database cop: your query is very slow, most queries don't run that slow me: officer I can EXPLAIN

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  9. May 22

    Feeling extremely confident and intelligent, going to true this bike wheel. (50 minutes later.) Well we're walking.

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  10. May 21

    Walking to school this morning I told my children about a new videogame I played where every time you stack a box your character groans, and it has a lot of animals and they all moan, and after about three minutes of this I told them it was called Whinecraft.

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  11. Retweeted
    May 21

    🚨 Job alert 🚨 Join the to build a BRAND-NEW program for digital projects & partnerships amplifying the stories of Black Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans & other minority communities in its collections

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  12. Retweeted
    May 21

    Join my creative team at ! We’re looking for highly-skilled storytellers with a knack for communicating complicated subjects & ideas in simple, clear, & entertaining ways. Our Safe Travels campaign is an example of the work we do.

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  13. May 20

    DuckDuckGo is doing its very best to protect me from this Brazilian soccer player.

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  14. May 19

    I wrote a little about my favorite thing, watching enterprise software videos on YouTube, and why, despite all of my cynicism, I was utterly won over by an 80-minute Salesforce presentation held by Marc Benioff in a rainstorm.

    “[Corporate product launch videos] bludgeon you with brand identity and stock photography until you’re reduced to a crouched, paranoid state, ordering Seeing Like a State and planning your move to Taos.” So why did watch watch all 80 minutes?
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  15. Retweeted
    May 18

    "When you aggregate hundreds of predictions, the result is a special, concentrated kind of wrong."

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  16. May 18

    We grew...a lot last year. We're growing...a lot. It's...a lot. We have good work going for NGOs, govt tech, finance, media, insurance, healthcare, online retail, videogames, climate orgs, and more. Product mgrs, designers, and engineers will find good things to do! Apply!

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  17. May 18

    Leaving this here in case you're evaluating your life as we emerge from the pandemic and wondering if a few years with nice people at a growing studio, using modern approaches, building software for many industries, is the right step for your career.

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  18. May 17

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  19. May 13

    how does this make you feel

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  20. May 13

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  21. May 13

    Hear me out: TRON but he goes inside the DOM.

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