Who the hell asked technologists to be the arbiters of free speech? This week on the podcast, Rich Ziade and Paul Ford discuss Substack's Nazi problem, tech-industry layoffs, and more. Listen, watch, or read a full transcript: aboard.com/podcast/bless-…

"As technologists and product leaders, we seek something beyond pure transaction." This week in the newsletter, Rich Ziade writes about building too many features—and building real relationships with users: aboard.com/too-much-of-a-…

This week on the podcast, Rich Ziade and Paul Ford discuss the appeal of minimally online hobbies—and, by extension, software—in an extremely online world. Listen, watch, or read a full transcript: aboard.com/podcast/craft-…

It’s easy to complain about public figures we hate—but what can we learn from them? On this week's podcast, Rich Ziade and Paul Ford search for positive takeaways about five tech and political leaders. Listen, watch, or read a full transcript: aboard.com/podcast/learni…

On this week's podcast, "Demolishing the Global Town Square," Paul Ford and Rich Ziade look at the rise and fall of the social media age—and what might come next. Listen, watch, or read a full transcript: aboard.com/podcast/demoli…

“‘Build an exciting product inside of a boring business’ sounds great, but it’s hard,” Paul Ford writes in the newsletter. “Exciting products come out of risk and fear, not out of better accounting principles. You can’t optimize your way to innovation.” aboard.com/beeps-of-yore/…

It's Baby's first press release! finance.yahoo.com/news/aboard-br…

Exciting news this week: We've rebranded! Our podcast, that is. Introducing Reqless—the new podcast from Aboard about how AI is changing software. In our first episode, Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk about what's in store in the weeks to come: aboard.com/podcast/reqles…

On this week’s Reqless, Paul Ford and Rich Ziade look at how AI might affect the dominant way people organize data today: The spreadsheet. With its accessibility and user-hackability, does the humble spreadsheet even need an AI transformation? aboard.com/podcast/will-a…

Will AI significantly change the spreadsheet? Paul Ford and Rich Ziade are skeptical. Listen to the whole conversation on this week's Reqless: aboard.com/podcast/will-a…

Calm down

Are Meta’s ideas about AI the future of the technology? On this week's Reqless, Paul Ford and Rich Ziade assess Meta’s Llama in the broader AI landscape. Listen or read a full transcript: aboard.com/podcast/why-fa…

How can AI help the marketing industry? On this week's Reqless, Paul Ford and Rich Ziade sit down with marketer and startup founder Noah Brier to talk about why he's excited about AI, and the sorts of problems his clients are asking him to solve with it: aboard.com/podcast/ai-mee…

Generative AI is already revolutionizing software development—so how long are developers’ jobs safe? On this week's Reqless, Paul Ford and Rich Ziade offer advice to anyone starting a career in tech. Listen or read a transcript: aboard.com/podcast/are-de…

"What I think PLG tools with enterprise ambitions should do, starting today, is reconfigure themselves as software toolkits." In this week's newsletter Rich Ziade writes about the future of the PLG model in the age of AI software development: aboard.com/a-reboot-for-p…

"When ​you ​look ​at ​it ​through ​the ​lens ​of ​who ​is ​going ​to ​benefit ​from ​it, ​'value' has ​very ​different ​meanings." On this week's Reqless, Rich Ziade talks about how stakeholders will assess AI tools differently than practitioners. Listen: aboard.com/podcast/a-new-…

"We are investing in a prodigy here," Rich Ziade writes of AI. "If we embrace that potential, less as a means to make our lives easier but more as a young apprentice that matures into something great, the more empowered we will feel." aboard.com/treat-ai-like-…

Farewell 2024—a boring year in which nothing really happened! On the final Reqless of the year, Paul Ford and Rich Ziade reflect on our current moment of instability, and some of the ways they try to manage it (waffles!) (also building software). Listen: aboard.com/podcast/a-year…

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