Christina Romer was a top White House economist during the Great Recession. As a researcher, she specializes in the Great Depression. She tells us what those disasters can (and can’t) teach us about the Covid crash.
Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton, best known for his 1975 book Animal Liberation, that makes an ethical case against eating meat. He has written brilliantly from an ethical perspective on extreme poverty, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, and happiness including in his books Ethics in the … Read more
Joined our private FB group yet? It’s a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they’re already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion. This episode Shaan and Sam talk: leadership in turbulent times, the business of roof racks, a newsletter generating $2m, the opportunities in eCommerce, employee surveillance and the rift between Silicon Valley and … Read more
This week’s guest on Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People is Jamia Wilson. Jamia wears many hats–and all of them well. She is a feminist, activist, writer, and speaker. She is also the director of the Feminist Press at the City University of New York. Jamia is destined to do remarkable things in her career. See Privacy … Read more
“Why We Shouldn’t Fear the ‘Black Box’ of AI (in Healthcare and Everywhere)” by Vijay Pande. First published in the New York Times, January 2018. You can also find and share this article at a16z.com/aidoctor
“When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China” by Connie Chan. First published August 2015. You can also find and share this essay at a16z.com/mobilefirstchina
“Why Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company — The Next Era of Financial Services and the ‘AWS Phase’ for Fintech” by Angela Strange. You can also find and share this essay at a16z.com/fintecheverywhere
Today we’re continuing a series we started a while ago of read-alouds (for more context on the why and why now check out episode #500 on how we podcast!). The first was episode #544 in April, It’s Time to Build, read out loud by Marc Andreessen; what follows are three more pieces read out loud … Read more
Mathematician and author of Hello World and The Mathematics of Love, Hannah Fry discusses the role of maths in society, the dating world and we explore what it means to be human in the age of algorithms. — Want even more? Members get early access, hand-edited transcripts, member-only episodes, and so much more. Learn more … Read more
When we talk about AI, we’re often talking about a very particular, narrow form of intelligence — the sort of analytical competence that can win you games of GO or solve complex math equations. That type of intelligence is important, but it’s incomplete. Human affairs don’t operate on reason and logic alone. They sometimes don’t operate … Read more