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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 202130min
Words of 2020! (and Metaphors, and Interfaces of the Year)
"In a year that left us speechless, 2020 has been filled with new words unlike any other”... so it's unprecedented that for the first time, the Oxford English Dictionary did NOT name a word of the yea...
24 Dec 202051min
The Machine That Made the Vaccine: Company, Platform, Innovation
In this special episode of Bio Eats World -- which aired right after the FDA authorized Moderna's mRNA vaccine for emergency use -- Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel tells the story of not just the vaccine’...
21 Dec 202040min
