There’s still hope for building on the web
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales
This week on the interview episode of The Vergecast, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel sits down with Postlight CEO Paul Ford. Ford co-founded Postlight, a digital product design lab and strategy firm, in 2015. He is also a writer, product strategist, educator, programmer, and software consultant.
If you keep up with tech writing, you probably know Ford’s name. In 2015, he wrote an entire issue of Bloomberg Businessweek titled “What is code?,” which colorfully explained the foundations of computer programming for an audience that doesn’t understand it or how pervasive and powerful it has become. Recently, Ford wrote a piece in Wired countering antagonism against and pessimism about technology, and how he’s still hopeful and excited…
