Paul Ford (technologist)

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Paul Ford (born August 11, 1974) is an American writer, programmer, and entrepreneur, based in New York City. [1] [2]

In 1997, he started Ftrain.com, one of the earliest blogs. He wrote for Harper's Magazine from 2004 to 2010 [3] and as of July 2023 is a regular contributor to Wired Magazine ; [1] he has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, MIT Technology Review, and NPR. [2]

In 2015, he published a 38,000-word article in Bloomberg Businessweek titled "What is Code", [4] a "deep dive into the meaning, practice, culture, and business of software", and the longest article ever run in the magazine. [5] [6] [7] [8] The piece won a National Magazine Award in 2016, [9] was included in The Best American Magazine Writing 2016 published by the American Society of Magazine Editors and Columbia University Press, [10] [11] and Ford, together with Bloomberg editor Josh Tyrangiel, appeared on Charlie Rose to discuss it. [12]

Ford is the author of The Secret Lives of Web Pages first published in 2016, with an updated edition forthcoming in 2025. [13] [14]

He is a co-founder of Aboard, an AI startup, and Postlight, a design and digital strategy consultancy that was acquired by NTT Data in 2022. [15] He served as an advisor to the White House Office of Digital Strategy during the Obama Administration. [16]

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  15. ↑ "NTT DATA Announces Intent to Acquire Postlight to Offer Creative High-End Design and Digital Transformation Services". us.nttdata.com. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
  16. ↑ "Speaker – Paul Ford". SND/NYC 2018 (Society for News Design). Retrieved 2023-12-31.
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