All About Ransomware
In just the last couple years, ransomware has grown into a multibillion dollar industry. It has evolved from taking systems and servers hostage to stealing data, and it has proven capable of shutting ...
25 Helmi 202135min
One on One with Marc and Ben
On social audio app Clubhouse, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are hosting a new live show called "One on One with A and Z", where they go deep on questions submitted via Twitter. The show is based i...
17 Helmi 20213h 1min
Amazon Narratives: Memos, Working Backwards from Release, More
When you hear stories about Amazon's "invention machine" -- which led to a company with not just one or two products but several successful diverse lines of business -- we often hear about things like...
8 Helmi 20211h 3min
Anatomy of the SolarWinds Hack: Who What Where When How
In this special “3x”-long episode of our (otherwise shortform) news analysis show 16 Minutes -- past such 2-3X explainer episodes have covered section 230, Tiktok, GPT-3, the opioid crisis, more -- we...
1 Helmi 202147min
Psychedelics: Striking a Balance Between Benefits and Side Effects
In recent years, there’s been a shift in how we think about psychedelics – from drugs of abuse and recreation, to powerful drugs for treating neuropsychiatric conditions such as depression, addiction,...
23 Tammi 202126min
Developers as Creatives
The rise of developers -- as buyers, as influencers, as a creative class -- is a direct result of "software eating the world", and of key shifts in IT from on-prem to cloud & SaaS to the API economy, ...
13 Tammi 202133min
Section 230: Everything You Need to Know -- Tweets, Free Speech, Beyond
All about section 230 of the Communications Decency Act -- in what Wired senior writer (and host of the Get Wired podcast) described as "one of the clearest-but-still-nuanced explainers I've heard - w...
9 Tammi 202139min
Baumol's Cost Disease, in Healthcare... and Where We Go Next
If software’s eating the world -- and more specifically, bringing costs down and increasing productivity through entire industries -- why have some industries, like healthcare, been so resistant? And ...
6 Tammi 202130min
