Paulo Pereira
Idle Words > Talks > The Moral Economy of Tech This is the text version of remarks I gave on June 26, 2016, at a panel on the Moral Economy of Tech at the SASE conference in Berkeley. The other panel participants were Kieran Healy (whose remarks are here), Stuart Russell and AnnaLee Saxenian. We…
On Technology Credit...Illustration by Karlssonwilker Inc. In the mid-’80s, a German engineer named Friedhelm Hillebrand helped devise a way for cellphones to send and receive text messages. Back then, mobile bandwidth was extremely limited, which meant that the messages needed to be as lightweight…
Three Years in San Francisco I had only been to San Francisco on random business trips and a couple of times with my family when I was very young. It seemed like a place I might live if I had never found Seattle. It was go-time now though. A drawn-out dance of interviews over the course of six…
“So after all is said and done, after all the complainin’ and the cryin’ and all the fuckin’ bullshit… is this all there is?” -Tony Soprano For a period of my life, I suffered from severe depression. I refused to leave the sanctity of my couch, smoked weed all day, and shunned all human company.…
05.15.2016 Somewhere below the Antarctic circle, I catch Tatiana, the waitress from the port side dining room, in a moment of leisure. This is the first time I've ever seen her off-duty. The galley crew on the Akademik Shokalskiy work twelve-hour days preparing, serving, clearing, and cleaning up…
1) An evolutionary clue to how our bodies burn calories When anthropologist Herman Pontzer set off from Hunter College in New York to Tanzania to study one of the few remaining hunter-gatherer tribes on the planet, he expected to find a group of calorie-burning machines. Unlike Westerners, who…
At May's Nails Salon on West 14th Street in Manhattan, a customer gets a neck massage while her nails dry.Credit...Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. The women begin to arrive just before 8 a.m., every day and without…
4 min read· Mar 16, 2016 -- The whole “Homogeneity of Design” topic is creeping up again. That’s cool. We’re all special flowers in our own way. But I’d like to make a few points about product design, as I see it. The first thing I’d like to say is that I am a very visual person. I really like to…
Is this you? Are you making other feel like this? Group chat is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda. In 2006 we launched Campfire, the first modern SAAS group chat and messaging tool for business. Since then, quite a few business chat and messaging tools like…
On the first day of 2016, chef René Redzepi walked into his new kitchen in a construction zone at the end of Sydney’s Barangaroo pier. He arrived at 1 p.m., later than planned, because his wife and two of their three daughters had fevers, and then he had no idea how to catch a water taxi across the…
Modern Love Credit...Brian Rea When my relationship unraveled nearly two years ago, I decided to suspend my career as an actuary in Boston and take a long vacation in Costa Rica, where I planned to learn how to surf and do yoga. Yes, it was the most clichéd response possible for a heartbroken…
I wrote this up some months ago, at the time that the “Show Me A Hero” miniseries was broadcast on HBO, but then held the essay back for the simple reason that viewers were still acquiring the narrative. After all, nothing is more distracting to the viewing of any edifice than to stumble through a…
Language defines the life of components. A “blue button” will work until the button is no longer blue—and then the name won’t make sense anymore. The pattern will have no reason to exist if blue buttons have fallen out of use. A component with the name “button,” however, will live a longer and more…
Published inBe Yourself · 4 min read· Dec 23, 2015 -- (Brandon Milner, Creative Commons) Most young women are used to being looked at on the train. So when I felt him looking at me, I did the things that come automatically — I slid down further in my seat. Fixed my gaze out the window. Turned the…
Idle Words > Talks > Website Obesity This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 29, 2015, at the Web Directions conference in Sydney. [53 minute video]. Let me start by saying that beautiful websites come in all sizes and page weights. I love big websites packed with images. I love…
Managing yourself June 19, 2014 Summary. Leer en españolLer em português If you’re working in the kitchen of Anthony Bourdain, legendary chef of Brasserie Les Halles, best-selling author, and famed television personality, you don’t dare so much as boil hot water without attending to a ritual that’s…
SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY. To criticize The Force Awakens for “recycling” the first three Star Wars movies—to complain that it’s “un-original” compared to that original work of genius—misses the point of the franchise so thoroughly and dramatically that this critical impulse seems more interesting to me…
Published inSignal v. Noise · 7 min read· Nov 25, 2015 -- I grew up lower-middle class on the outskirts of Copenhagen. Anywhere outside of Scandinavia, the socioeconomic label would probably have been ‘poor’, but Danish safety nets and support systems did their best to suspend the facts and offer…
By Bryan Appleyard When Kodak started collapsing — finally filing for bankruptcy in January 2012 — some of the greatest photographers in the world panicked. Don McCullin immediately ordered 150 rolls of Kodak’s Tri-X black-and-white film. “I rang up my stockist and asked for them right away. I…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Neil Shea (@neilshea13) In late June, I was traveling with photographer Lynsey Addario through Sicily, working on a story about migrants arriving in Europe from Africa. During a car trip across the island, we started talking about writing—specifically,…
The Internet—it’s branded as the electronic equivalent of the marketplace of ideas, but the best homes online, the places you wind up spending your time, they never feel like a bazaar. They’re not even a café—that’s too public. Coffee shops get noisy, your favorite barista moves away, and sometimes…
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Jakub Alexander, whose stage name is Heathered Pearls, designed the artwork used for the cover of his album “Body Complex.”Credit...Chad Batka for The New York Times At the Ghostly Store, an online boutique, you can buy wristwatches, leather wallets, gallery-quality art prints, coffee beans,…
Internet Time Machine Facebook’s not your friend Published inHuman Parts · 5 min read· Nov 9, 2015 -- Photo: Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images This story is part of the Internet Time Machine, a collection about life online in the 2010s. Lately Facebook is getting a little too intimate with me. “Good…
#WEBSUMMIT2015 Published inSignal v. Noise · 12 min read· Nov 4, 2015 -- About 12 years ago, I co-founded a startup called Basecamp: A simple project collaboration tool that helps people make progress together, sold on a monthly subscription. It took a part of some people’s work life and made it a…
In May of this year, Facebook announced Facebook Instant Articles, its foray into innovating the Facebook user experience around news reading. A month later, Apple introduced their own take with their Apple News app, which allows “stories to be specially formatted to look and feel like articles…
For a long time, Ina Garten was a Hamptons shopkeeper who waited upon the wealthy. She has been, for a shorter time, a celebrity chef of some wealth. "Am I a billionaire? Of course not!" she told me recently over tea on the Upper East Side, and then she laughed. Throughout her thirty-seven-year…
From 2009 to 2013, every book I read, I read on a screen. And then I stopped. You could call my four years of devout screen‑reading an experiment. I felt a duty – not to anyone or anything specifically, but more vaguely to the idea of ‘books’. I wanted to understand how their boundaries were…
An audio version of this essay is available to subscribers, provided by curio.io. The deep infiltration of digital information into our lives has created a fervor around the supposed corresponding loss of logged-off real life. Each moment is oversaturated with digital potential: Texts, status…
Opinion Credit...Yann Kebbi COLLEGE students tell me they know how to look someone in the eye and type on their phones at the same time, their split attention undetected. They say it’s a skill they mastered in middle school when they wanted to text in class without getting caught. Now they use it…
I met you in the rain on the last day of 1972, the same day I resolved to kill myself. One week prior, at the behest of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, I'd flown four B-52 sorties over Hanoi. I dropped forty-eight bombs. How many homes I destroyed, how many lives I ended, I'll never know. But in…
In his review of David Chang’s fried chicken joint, which has expanded to two locations within two months of launching, Ryan Sutton notes, for context: Chang isn’t the only high-end chef to try his hand out in the fine-casual space — the Danny Meyer term for elevated fast food. Del Posto’s Mark…
Idle Words > Talks > What Happens Next Will Amaze You This is the text version of a talk I gave on September 14, 2015, at the FREMTIDENS INTERNET conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Good morning! Today's talk is being filmed, recorded and transcribed, and everything I say today will leave an…
In a 1997 segment on the short-lived tech TV show The Site, host Soledad O’Brien sits at a bar in front of a laptop computer, talking to Dev Null, a full-scale human avatar with frosted fuchsia tips and a soul patch. Motion-captured from the show’s second host backstage, he swivels from side to…
by Noah Davis Over the course of the last three months, I have interviewed more than twenty writers, editors, media people, and journalism professors about the state of being a freelance writer in 2015. The general consensus is that it’s the best time since the very early days of the web to make…
Jeremy Dean, Wealth of Nations, 2011. Courtesy the artist and {CTS} creativethriftshop, NY. When I tell people what we are doing, they want to hear about the room where you produce. I tell them that there is a lot of paperwork. That they take your picture and look at your license. Then they walk you…
The meaning of the phrase “refugee crisis” can be hard to grasp — until you see the photographs. A Syrian toddler, dead on a Turkish beach, after the boat in which his family was attempting to flee to Europe capsized at sea. Desperate families crowding a Hungarian train station, their children…
Almost everyone believes the following: Vaccines are a good and necessary part of medicine. Some people, and more people every day, believe this, too: Those who don't believe in the virtues of vaccines — anti-vaxxers — are ignorant and dangerous lunatics, possibly evil. I spent most of my life…
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