Patrick McKenzie (patio11  )

I write on tech, finance, and the wonky geekery that underlies the modern world. I built four software companies and America's shadow vaccine info infrastructure. I am an advisor at Stripe.

I also run Complex Systems, a podcast which is about infrastructure more broadly, and the technical, human, cultural, and policy factors which shape it. Sometimes it s financial infrastructure, sometimes it is the power grid, sometimes it is government software procurement, and sometimes it is disaster management—but I repeat myself.

I have also written many essays on a potpurri of software-adjacent topics.