Perspectives
What we share with clients, we share with the world, because in a confusing time, clear guidance matters. Every week, our co-founders—Paul Ford, one of the world’s top tech writers and thinkers, and Rich Ziade, who has led transformations for some of the biggest companies on the planet—explore how AI is changing software, business, and everything else through our podcast, newsletter, and live events, often with fascinating guests from tech, media, and culture. Start with the latest, or dig into the archives. We’ve been at this for a while.
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A conversation with Every.org, Candid, and The CenterCan AI Help Nonprofits Fundraise?
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Sign contracts for free, no login needed.Meet Aboard Sign
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How does the current state of the industry look to a journalist on the ground?Anthony Ha: Dispatches from a TechCrunch AI Reporter
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Paul Ford for NYT Opinion: Anthropic’s I.P.O. is about more than just one company raising boatloads of cash.The Open Secret Buried in Anthropic’s 300-Page I.P.O. Filing (opens in a new tab)
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It’s only a matter of time before we start hacking, well, everything.The Great Firmware Flowering
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The president of Every.org discusses ways that nonprofits can introduce—and embrace—AI.Allison Fine: Making AI-Driven Change Less Scary
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Paul Ford, a co-founder of Aboard and longtime tech blogger, recently built a tool called TinyLittleOffice that puts all the stuff in an unexpected place: the URL. Paul joins the…Vergecast: Files are over. All you need are URLs. (opens in a new tab)
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A panel discussion moderated by Molly HardyWhen Public Data Goes Dark
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Web browsers enable incredibly rich app development—and that’s radically easier than it used to be.The Web Is More Than Enough
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In our new series, Paul and Rich are ready to answer your questions about AI—and beyond.Ask Aboard: AI Security, Bad Clients, and Yacht Rock
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...and it's a perfect privacy match for Signal fans with no logins and local-only storageDeveloper vibe-codes another free Microsoft Office clone for your browser (opens in a new tab)
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Tiny Little Office got a mention in the Financial Times' markets and finance blog.Financial Times’ FT Alphaville (opens in a new tab)
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Paul Ford and Rich Ziade revive the TinySheet concept with a suite of productivity tools that encode document data directly into shareable links, offering a privacy-focused alternative to cloud-based editors.TinyLittleOffice stores documents in URLs, skipping servers entirely (opens in a new tab)
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Tiny Little Office (opens in a new tab)
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For those times when a full-fat editor is overkillTinyLittleOffice, where the link is the document (opens in a new tab)
Meet Aboard Sign
The Great Firmware Flowering
The Web Is More Than Enough
Introducing TinyLittleOffice.com
An Op-Ed Written by the World’s Best Models
People Are Reclaiming the Computer
I Keep Accidentally Building Search Engines
Humans Are the Only Real Agents
A Brand-New Archive for a Historical Treasure
About That $30 Trillion
Little Computer People
Is AI Entering Its NFT Era?
The Shapeshifter’s Little Brother
Triple Threat
Summertime Software
Anthony Ha: Dispatches from a TechCrunch AI Reporter
Allison Fine: Making AI-Driven Change Less Scary
Ask Aboard: AI Security, Bad Clients, and Yacht Rock
Jason Goldman: From VC Pitches to AI Kill Switches
Katie Notopoulos: There Are Still LOLs on the Internet
Is Jev the New Shape of AI?
Charity Majors: Embrace Your Computer’s Chaos
AI Companies Shouldn’t Police Themselves
AI Versus…Talking to People?
Josh Tyrangiel: Media, Moats, and Middle School
It’s Fun to Ship Software
Kate Lee: Can AI Replace Editors Like Me?
Why Is It So Hard To Ship With AI?
Tricia Wang: Verification and Trust in the AI Era
Karp Carping: Decoding Palantir’s Whole Deal
Can AI Help Nonprofits Fundraise?
When Public Data Goes Dark
Who’s Responsible for AI?
AI Comes to the Museum
Databases for the People
Design Beyond the Prompt
Can AI Be Good?
How AI is Shaping Investor Thinking in Healthcare
Tech, AI, and NYC
AI in Healthcare
The State of Vibecoding
The AI Effect
Resilient by Design
Q1-Q4 AI
More Than Vibes
The Open Secret Buried in Anthropic’s 300-Page I.P.O. Filing (opens in a new tab)
Vergecast: Files are over. All you need are URLs. (opens in a new tab)
Developer vibe-codes another free Microsoft Office clone for your browser (opens in a new tab)
Financial Times’ FT Alphaville (opens in a new tab)
TinyLittleOffice stores documents in URLs, skipping servers entirely (opens in a new tab)
Tiny Little Office (opens in a new tab)
TinyLittleOffice, where the link is the document (opens in a new tab)
Advice About AI at Work | Please Advise (opens in a new tab)
A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (opens in a new tab)
A.I-pocalypse now? (opens in a new tab)
Your AI Project Doesn’t Need More Agents, with Rich Ziade (opens in a new tab)
Code Is Free Speech. Seriously. (opens in a new tab)
How AI Is Changing Code – Paul Ford with Nicholas Thompson (opens in a new tab)
Paul Ford on why everything is changing (but not how you think) (opens in a new tab)
AI Can Make Software Now. That Changes Everything, with Paul Ford (opens in a new tab)
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