You've Got Enron Mail!

The strange history of a punctuation mark that makes writing feel human, and why people now think it proves the opposite. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of 99% Invisible ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visi ...  Show more

This is the sixth episode of our ongoing series breaking down the U.S. Constitution.This month, Roman and Elizabeth discuss Article III, which establishes the judicial branch, alongside New York Times chief legal affairs correspondent, Adam Liptak. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ ...  Show more

In 2000, Enron was one of the largest and companies in the world, praised far and wide for its innovations in energy distribution and many other markets. By 2002, it was apparent that many bad apples had been cooking the books, and billions of dollars and thousands of jobs disapp ...  Show more

How well do your day to day emails work for you? How well do you think they work for those that receive them?! Do they bore or thrill? Do you always get back what you need? Face facts, a lot of those emails you rattled off in a hurry today were pretty awful and they probably had ...  Show more

Au chapitre des questions simples que tout le monde s’est déjà posées au moins une fois, mais auxquelles personne n’a pris le temps de répondre se trouve l’empreinte carbone d’un mail. En effet, tous les services numériques polluent… pas tous à la même échelle bien entendu, ma ...

The FTX fraud has dominated headlines now for weeks, during which we’ve debated if and how Acquired could uniquely add to the conversation. Then we realized there was an angle so perfect that we had to drop everything and enter Acquired research overdrive: Enron. Travel back with ...  Show more