Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

A podcast by Patrick McKenzie - Thursdays

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31 Episodes

  1. You can’t retract the facts

    Published: 2/20/2025
  2. Stablecoins and shenanigans, with Zeke Faux

    Published: 2/13/2025
  3. Power plays: grid economics and engineering, with Travis Dauwalter

    Published: 2/6/2025
  4. The landmines buried in the fine print of Chicago’s new casino deal

    Published: 1/30/2025
  5. The banking crisis, two years later

    Published: 1/23/2025
  6. Debanking explained

    Published: 1/16/2025
  7. Retrospective on 2024, with Sammy Cottrell

    Published: 1/9/2025
  8. Seeing like an outsider, with Yatharth

    Published: 1/2/2025
  9. The future of pandemic preparedness, with Joshua Morrison

    Published: 12/19/2024
  10. How we tax property, with Lars Doucet

    Published: 12/12/2024
  11. Fraud levels are a policy choice

    Published: 12/5/2024
  12. AI, poker, and mind games, with Max Chiswick

    Published: 11/21/2024
  13. Boom, busts, and long term progress with Byrne Hobart

    Published: 11/14/2024
  14. How money moves, with Erik Torenberg

    Published: 11/7/2024
  15. From molecule to medicine, with Ross Rheingans-Yoo

    Published: 10/31/2024
  16. Picking Uncle Sam's pocket, with Jetson Leder-Luis

    Published: 10/24/2024
  17. How real estate investing works with Moses Kagan

    Published: 10/17/2024
  18. Telling the tech story

    Published: 10/10/2024
  19. The hundred-year-old telegram worth $5 million, with Jim McKenzie

    Published: 10/3/2024
  20. Bits, Bytes, and Burgers with Byrne Hobart

    Published: 9/26/2024

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We live in a world where our civilization and daily lives depend upon institutions, infrastructure, and technological substrates that are _complicated_ but not _unknowable_. Join Patrick McKenzie (patio11) as he discusses how decisions, technology, culture, and incentives shape our finance, technology, government, and more, with the people who built (and build) those Complex Systems.