# Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962.md RSS feed: https://feeds.transistor.fm/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11 Official site: https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com Author: Patrick McKenzie Episodes: 97 ## Resource 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. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962.md ## Episodes - [What LLMs can and can't do for writers, with Clara Collier of Asterisk Magazine](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/what-llms-can-and-can-t-do-for-writers-with-clara-collier-of-asterisk-magazine) — 2026-07-16T07:05:58+00:00 - [YouTube economics now, with Justin Kuiper](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/youtube-economics-now-with-justin-kuiper) — 2026-07-09T07:00:00+00:00 - [The structural footprint of a bank run](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/the-structural-footprint-of-a-bank-run) — 2026-07-02T06:58:54+00:00 - [Forty ways to pay for coffee in Japan](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/forty-ways-to-pay-for-coffee-in-japan) — 2026-06-25T07:00:00+00:00 - [The factory behind your home loan](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/the-factory-behind-your-home-loan) — 2026-06-18T07:00:42+00:00 - [How brokerage transfers actually work](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/how-brokerage-transfers-actually-work) — 2026-06-04T07:00:00+00:00 - [Wrong numbers and why they survive, with Aaron Brown](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/wrong-numbers-and-why-they-survive-with-aaron-brown) — 2026-05-14T07:00:00+00:00 - [Defendant, Censor, Politico, Spy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/defendant-censor-politico-spy) — 2026-05-08T07:12:19+00:00 - [How the SPLC became financial infrastructure](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/how-the-splc-became-financial-infrastructure) — 2026-05-01T08:15:29+00:00 - [The honey badger of payments](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/the-honey-badger-of-payments) — 2026-04-23T07:00:50+00:00 - [Cash received is not revenue earned](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/cash-received-is-not-revenue-earned) — 2026-04-16T07:01:00+00:00 - [Your bank balance isn’t in the bank, and other alchemy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/your-bank-balance-isn-t-in-the-bank-and-other-alchemy) — 2026-04-09T07:01:36+00:00 - [Payroll, pins, and punch cards](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/payroll-pins-and-punch-cards) — 2026-04-02T07:00:00+00:00 - [Delve into compliance theatre](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/delve-into-compliance-theatre) — 2026-03-26T07:02:08+00:00 - [Understanding consumer debt collections: the underbelly of finance](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/understanding-consumer-debt-collections-the-underbelly-of-finance) — 2026-03-19T08:18:53+00:00 - [Inference engineering and the real-world deployment of LLMs, with Philip Kiely](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/inference-engineering-and-the-real-world-deployment-of-llms-with-philip-kiely) — 2026-03-12T07:00:44+00:00 - [Secrets designed to be divulged and other payment oddities](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/secrets-designed-to-be-divulged-and-other-payment-oddities) — 2026-03-05T08:37:46+00:00 - [Understanding government procurement, with Luke Farrell](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/understanding-government-procurement-with-luke-farrell) — 2026-02-26T08:00:00+00:00 - [APIs of evil: studying fraud as infrastructure](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/apis-of-evil-studying-fraud-as-infrastructure) — 2026-02-12T08:00:00+00:00 - [Why check cashing businesses exist](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/why-check-cashing-businesses-exist) — 2026-02-05T08:00:00+00:00 - [Claude Code makes several thousand dollars in 30 minutes, with Patrick McKenzie](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/claude-code-makes-several-thousand-dollars-in-30-minutes-with-patrick-mckenzie) — 2026-01-29T08:01:08+00:00 - [We should stop burning pharma trials’ lab notes, with Ruxandra Teslo](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/we-should-stop-burning-pharma-trials-lab-notes-with-ruxandra-teslo) — 2026-01-22T08:00:00+00:00 - [Your support rep is also trapped in this call, with Des Traynor of Intercom](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/your-support-rep-is-also-trapped-in-this-call-with-des-traynor-of-intercom) — 2026-01-15T08:31:58+00:00 - [The magic spell that makes banks give you your money back](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/the-magic-spell-that-makes-banks-give-you-your-money-back) — 2026-01-08T08:00:00+00:00 - [2025 in review, with Sammy Cottrell](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/2025-in-review-with-sammy-cottrell) — 2026-01-03T08:03:21+00:00 - [Gift cards and the fraud supply chain](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/gift-cards-and-the-fraud-supply-chain) — 2025-12-26T09:42:07+00:00 - [Understanding perpetual futures](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/understanding-perpetual-futures) — 2025-12-11T08:01:00+00:00 - [The economics of discovery, with Ben Reinhardt](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/the-economics-of-discovery-with-ben-reinhardt) — 2025-12-04T08:03:54+00:00 - [Understanding equity at tech companies, with Billy Gallagher of Prospect](https://stenobird.com/podcast/complex-systems-with-patrick-mckenzie-patio11-6944962/understanding-equity-at-tech-companies-with-billy-gallagher-of-prospect) — 2025-11-20T08:26:36+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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