Paul Ford

Jun 2, 2024 | wired.com | Paul Ford

The best thing about brain-melting software like ChatGPT? It doesn’t feel remorse.

Jan 3, 2024 | wired.com | Paul Ford

When you build software, you add little hooks into the code so that, as users open a window, tap a picture, upload a file, the code tattles on them, sending some of their data to another company's server. Log data is sowed; reports are reaped. This is known as “analytics” or, if there are people with advanced degrees involved, “data science.”I cofounded a software company, like a doofus, so I attend a weekly analytics meeting.

Jan 2, 2024 | wired.com | Paul Ford

many times a year, as if on a hidden schedule, some tech person, often venture-capital-adjacent, types out a thought on social media like “The only thing liberal arts majors are good for is scrubbing floors while I punch them” and hits Send. Then the poetry people respond—often a little late, in need of haircuts—with earnest arguments about the value of art. I am an English major to death.

Nov 13, 2023 | thestar.com.my | Paul Ford

NEW YORK: Climate people – researchers, environmental, social and governance (ESG) administrators, philanthropic organisations – can forget, under the pressure of fact, just how alien statistics can feel to those of us new to Climate World. They come to the conference and put a “419.68” on the screen. Everyone sighs and nods. They speak in fractions or, alternately, trillions – of dollars or trees, depending on the context. These numbers are whole careers, tenure, grants proffered or not.

Nov 11, 2023 | bloomberglinea.com | Paul Ford

ÚltimascotizacionesLa gente del clima -investigadores, administradores de ESG, organizaciones filantrópicas- puede olvidar, bajo la presión de los hechos, lo extrañas que pueden resultar las estadísticas para los que somos nuevos en el Mundo del Clima. Llegan a la conferencia y ponen un " 419,68″ en la pantalla. Todos suspiran y asienten. Hablan en fracciones o, alternativamente, en billones: de dólares o de árboles, según el contexto.