Where Does My Stuff Live? Paul Ford on Embedding Entire Documents in a URL

The discussion centers on a recurring question in the AI era: where computing actually happens, and where our data lives. Paul Ford, co-founder of AORD, joins to talk about tinylittleoffice.com, a project built around the idea that an entire document, presentation, or spreadsheet can be contained directly in a URL.

■ Data location and sharing in the AI era
- Whether computing happens locally or on remote servers
- How existing assumptions about storing and sharing data are challenged
■ tinylittleoffice.com and AORD
- Putting whole documents into the URL itself
- Deliberately disrupting established structures of file storage
- Creating a small, tidy place for a document instead of accumulating files
■ Ownership and openness
- How sharing a URL changes the idea of owning a document
- Comparison with conventional cloud storage such as Google Drive
- Trade-offs between open sharing and control over one's files

This is relevant to technologists, designers, and knowledge workers who think about where their work is stored and how it reaches other people. It offers a way to reconsider document ownership and the mechanics of sharing in an AI-shaped landscape.