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.