Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

By Patrick McKenzie

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Episodes: 40

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 Apr 5, 2025
Deliciously complex and simply explained

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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.

Episode Date
Understanding and wielding power in local government, with Daniel Golliher
Apr 24, 2025
The AI energy bottleneck, with Tim Fist
Apr 17, 2025
Taking stablecoins seriously, with Haseeb Qureshi
Apr 10, 2025
The past, present, and future of AI, with Stripe
Apr 03, 2025
No, poor people aren’t funding your credit card rewards
Mar 27, 2025
Points, profits, and packed planes, with Gary Leff
Mar 20, 2025
Tax the dirt, with Lars Doucet & Greg Miller
Mar 13, 2025
A tale of two Americas in one $50K cash withdrawal
Mar 06, 2025
AI, data centers, and power economics, with Azeem Azhar
Feb 27, 2025
You can’t retract the facts
Feb 20, 2025
Stablecoins and shenanigans, with Zeke Faux
Feb 13, 2025
Power plays: grid economics and engineering, with Travis Dauwalter
Feb 06, 2025
The landmines buried in the fine print of Chicago’s new casino deal
Jan 30, 2025
The banking crisis, two years later
Jan 23, 2025
Debanking explained
Jan 16, 2025
Retrospective on 2024, with Sammy Cottrell
Jan 09, 2025
Seeing like an outsider, with Yatharth
Jan 02, 2025
The future of pandemic preparedness, with Joshua Morrison
Dec 19, 2024
How we tax property, with Lars Doucet
Dec 12, 2024
Fraud levels are a policy choice
Dec 05, 2024
AI, poker, and mind games, with Max Chiswick
Nov 21, 2024
Boom, busts, and long term progress with Byrne Hobart
Nov 14, 2024
How money moves, with Erik Torenberg
Nov 07, 2024
From molecule to medicine, with Ross Rheingans-Yoo
Oct 31, 2024
Picking Uncle Sam's pocket, with Jetson Leder-Luis
Oct 24, 2024
How real estate investing works with Moses Kagan
Oct 17, 2024
Telling the tech story
Oct 10, 2024
The hundred-year-old telegram worth $5 million, with Jim McKenzie
Oct 03, 2024
Bits, Bytes, and Burgers with Byrne Hobart
Sep 26, 2024
Decisions Nobody Made, policy edition, with Dave Guarino
Sep 19, 2024
True Crime, banking edition
Sep 12, 2024
That time we accidentally created national healthcare infrastructure, with Dave Kasten
Sep 05, 2024
The mad science of drilling the earth with Austin Vernon
Aug 29, 2024
Balancing control and chaos: cybernetics, fraud, and modern organizations with Dan Davies
Aug 22, 2024
Energy economics and rocket science with Casey Handmer
Aug 15, 2024
Bet on it: Zvi Mowshowitz on professional gambling, trading, and AI futures
Aug 08, 2024
Betting on the future via prediction markets, with Stephen Grugett of Manifold
Aug 01, 2024
Reporting on tech with Kelsey Piper
Jul 25, 2024
Writing the first draft of financial history with Byrne Hobart
Jul 18, 2024
How the Smart Money teaches trading with Ricki Heicklen
Jul 11, 2024