David Blood @david@4estate.media
- Financial Times
- https://www.ft.com/david-blood
Interactive news at Financial Times. Writes, codes, makes charts etc. Once and future Vancouverite. You're right, I do have a silly name 👏
Joined Aug 2018
Ducked into a burrito place during a rainy lunch break to find its walls (bizarrely) papered with a certain pink business newspaper. Some real blasts from the past here
RT @SimonTilford@twitter.com
"Ignorant people can succeed if success depends on other, unrelated qualities. Many companies promote good-looking people. The Tory party promotes articulate public schoolboys." Great as usual from @KuperSimon@twitter.com: https://www.ft.com/content/8d7d7e0e-8719-11e9-a028-86cea8523dc2?segmentId=5b3cb929-a23e-88ae-662f-4cae036b0dee
RT @politico@twitter.com
Russia's infamous troll farm conducted a campaign on Twitter before the 2016 elections that was larger, more coordinated and more effective than previously known, a cybersecurity firm has found https://politi.co/2HUTjfH
🆕 Brazenly using words rather than code, I reflect on Facebook’s journey to an open ads API for our Tech Teardowns column https://www.ft.com/content/7e7f0564-82e9-11e9-b592-5fe435b57a3b
RT @JohnReedwrites@twitter.com
I’m thrilled to have co-won a @sopasia@twitter.com award for this story, in collaboration with @lesliehook@twitter.com, @davidcblood@twitter.com, @Ryn_writes@twitter.com, and
the excellent FT magazine editors @AliceFishburn@twitter.com, @estherbintliff@twitter.com, and @suematthias@twitter.com. Thanks to all
RT @davidallengreen@twitter.com
This is what happened to my barrister friend, a EU and migration law expert. #DeniedMyVote https://twitter.com/APatyna/status/1131463618061570050
For those who didn't have the opportunity to see it in the story, this was the (short-lived) main graphic
Story w/ @gabewildau@twitter.com 👇
Code 👉 https://github.com/ft-interactive/china-slowing-pains-notebooks
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RT @FinancialTimes@twitter.com
Some fore@gabewildau@twitter.comes in China bucked the country’s slowdown trend last year even as the economy decelerated more than official figures suggest. Read more in China’s slowing pains: https://on.ft.com/2HzvHfB
https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1128197024904560640
RT @AdrienneKlasa@twitter.com
China’s slowing pains: our new series examining the brave new world of slower growth China launches today - stay tuned for more features this week via @FT@twitter.com
https://on.ft.com/2LDj1JA
Remember how good Arcade Fire used to be?
“I’m reading books and watching films and walking round exhibitions with a new level of attention, tucking away images and ideas not in order to impress people I’ve never met, but… to construct novels and short stories and paint pictures”
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RT @FinancialTimes@twitter.com
‘I feel as if I've stepped off a crowded city street and find myself alone in woods’ – Life after Twitter has become fascinatingly refreshing for author Mark Hadd…
https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1127121926135132160
Youthful bad-assery — in journalism, at least — is great if you can afford it. It took me years to save enough for master's degree tuition; as a result, I'm much older than most of my peers whose parents paid it for them. A segment of them view me as an underachiever for this 😐
This piece is mainly about the neuroscience of late bloomers, but I'd be interested to hear more about their economic circumstances versus those of e.g. 30 Under 30 types https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-never-too-late-to-start-a-brilliant-career-11556896617?shareToken=st5b8e95fe52ff4f95ab18056e95009757
RT @jeremybowers@twitter.com
I didn't graduate college until I was 26 and didn't write my first line of code until I was 28.
You don't have to be a bad-ass in your teens in order to have a career. https://twitter.com/francescamarief/status/1124383037561688064
RT @FinancialTimes@twitter.com
Britain’s main Conservative and Labour parties look to have suffered heavy losses in local elections held across England on Thursday. Live updates here: https://on.ft.com/2GT30tr
In a bizarre and dramatic reversal of fortune, I appear to be the best-dressed person in the worst-smelling bar
- Financial Times
- https://www.ft.com/david-blood
Interactive news at Financial Times. Writes, codes, makes charts etc. Once and future Vancouverite. You're right, I do have a silly name 👏
Joined Aug 2018
