The a16z Podcast discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future – especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. This podcast is produced by Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Multiple episodes are released every week; visit a16z.com for more details and to sign up for our newsletters and other content as well!
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a16z Podcast: On Morals and Meaning in Products, Business, and Life
Focusing only on the "crunchy, wonky stuff" behind policies or products sometimes misses the bigger picture of the humanity at the center of why we're doing the thing in the first place. Because systems -- whether algorithms or capitalism or other such "operating systems" -- need to work for people... not the other way around. Or so observes Arthur Brooks, current president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) -- a public policy think tank focused on free enterprise and more (and where he recently announced he will be passing on the baton, after a decade of leadership). So how does this philosophy of human dignity and human potential apply to automation and jobs, to education, to entrepreneurship? And not just in the "conventional" entrepreneurial sense of building companies and products -- but in building products, or changing one's life? The answer, argues Brooks in this quick, hallway-style episode of the a16z Podcast (recorded in one of our earlier Washington, D.C. roadshows, with Sonal Chokshi) -- has to be rooted in the philosophy of human meaning. And, in truly needing each other... so no one is left behind.