

Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
Patrick McKenzie
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.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11) podcast:

#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Lying for Money

#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Recoding America
How the Digital Revolution Reshaped Our Politics

#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Land Is a Big Deal
Why Rent Is Too High, Wages Too Low, and What We Can Do about It

#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Alchemy of Us

#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Going Infinite
The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The crash and its aftermath

#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Brotopia

#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Number Go Up

#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
License to steal

#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Rules for Radicals
A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Administrative Burden
Policymaking by Other Means

#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Unaccountability Machine
Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind

#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Information
A History, a Theory, a Flood

#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Structure and Strategy

#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Progress and poverty

#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation

#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The High Cost of Free Parking

#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The reckoning

#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Permission Marketing
Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers