Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

A podcast by Patrick McKenzie - Thursdays

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24 Episodes

  1. Seeing like an outsider, with Yatharth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 9/26/2024
  14. Decisions Nobody Made, policy edition, with Dave Guarino

    Published: 9/19/2024
  15. True Crime, banking edition

    Published: 9/12/2024
  16. That time we accidentally created national healthcare infrastructure, with Dave Kasten

    Published: 9/5/2024
  17. The mad science of drilling the earth with Austin Vernon

    Published: 8/29/2024
  18. Balancing control and chaos: cybernetics, fraud, and modern organizations with Dan Davies

    Published: 8/22/2024
  19. Energy economics and rocket science with Casey Handmer

    Published: 8/15/2024
  20. Bet on it: Zvi Mowshowitz on professional gambling, trading, and AI futures

    Published: 8/8/2024

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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.