Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
By Patrick McKenzie
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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.
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How deposit insurance actually works
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Home improvement lending with fewer bankers and more computers
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Talking to the Bank of England about systemic risk and systems engineering
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Narrative, mastery, and character bleed in games, with Ricki Heicklen
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Bits and bricks: Oliver Habryka on LessWrong, LightHaven, and community infrastructure
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Building institutions that bend towards truth, with Clara Collier of Asterisk Magazine
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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How blogging went legit, with Substack CEO Chris Best
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Prestige media, new media, and the US government, with Kelsey Piper
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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AI alignment, with Emmett Shear
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Building software that survives contact with reality, with Will Wilson
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Defense, drones, and military procurement, with Bean of Naval Gazing
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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AI and the great developer speed-up, with Joel Becker of METR
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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How banks actually work (and don't work)
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Building software in Japan, with Jim Weisser
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Startup investing in Tokyo, with Coral Capital’s James Riney
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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How AI reshapes the craft of software engineering, with Yoav Tzfati
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Stacking the odds: Cate Hall on agency and outlier success
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Think like a trader, with Ricki Heicklen
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Achieving results in the physical world, with Adam Jarvis of “Public Service”
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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The AI infrastructure stack with Jennifer Li, a16z
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Getting better at LLMs, with Zvi Mowshowitz
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Machine learning meets malware, with Caleb Fenton
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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How to negotiate your salary package
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May 29, 2025 |
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The capitalist's guide to podcasting, with Ross Rheingans-Yoo
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May 22, 2025 |
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Killing viruses with light, with Jacob Swett
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May 15, 2025 |
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Life insurance and your money, with Zac Townsend
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May 08, 2025 |
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Fixing government technology, with Mikey Dickerson
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May 01, 2025 |
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Understanding and wielding power in local government, with Daniel Golliher
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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The AI energy bottleneck, with Tim Fist
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Taking stablecoins seriously, with Haseeb Qureshi
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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The past, present, and future of AI, with Stripe
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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No, poor people aren’t funding your credit card rewards
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Points, profits, and packed planes, with Gary Leff
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Tax the dirt, with Lars Doucet & Greg Miller
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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A tale of two Americas in one $50K cash withdrawal
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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AI, data centers, and power economics, with Azeem Azhar
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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You can’t retract the facts
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Stablecoins and shenanigans, with Zeke Faux
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Power plays: grid economics and engineering, with Travis Dauwalter
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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The landmines buried in the fine print of Chicago’s new casino deal
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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The banking crisis, two years later
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Debanking explained
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Retrospective on 2024, with Sammy Cottrell
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Seeing like an outsider, with Yatharth
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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The future of pandemic preparedness, with Joshua Morrison
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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How we tax property, with Lars Doucet
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Fraud levels are a policy choice
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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AI, poker, and mind games, with Max Chiswick
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Boom, busts, and long term progress with Byrne Hobart
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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How money moves, with Erik Torenberg
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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From molecule to medicine, with Ross Rheingans-Yoo
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Picking Uncle Sam's pocket, with Jetson Leder-Luis
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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How real estate investing works with Moses Kagan
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Telling the tech story
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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The hundred-year-old telegram worth $5 million, with Jim McKenzie
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Bits, Bytes, and Burgers with Byrne Hobart
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Decisions Nobody Made, policy edition, with Dave Guarino
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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True Crime, banking edition
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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That time we accidentally created national healthcare infrastructure, with Dave Kasten
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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The mad science of drilling the earth with Austin Vernon
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Balancing control and chaos: cybernetics, fraud, and modern organizations with Dan Davies
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Energy economics and rocket science with Casey Handmer
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Bet on it: Zvi Mowshowitz on professional gambling, trading, and AI futures
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Betting on the future via prediction markets, with Stephen Grugett of Manifold
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Reporting on tech with Kelsey Piper
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Writing the first draft of financial history with Byrne Hobart
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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How the Smart Money teaches trading with Ricki Heicklen
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Jul 11, 2024 |