Patrick McKenzie

One of the better articles I've read over the years on the culture that is Google, warts and all. (This substantially matches my understanding from *many* conversations that do not have a publicly readable URL associated with them.)

There was a really good podcast episode with Patrick and John Collison on Invest Like the Best. It’s denser than most podcasts, covering (among others) differing perspectives on founder-as-auteur versus founder-as-metonym-for-tribe, how payments has gotten more complex, etc.

As someone who appreciates Matt Levine both concretely in the abstract, there could be a hundred other authors with this general lens on the world applied to various fields and I would read as many as I could find hours in the day for.

An excellent essay on a phenomenon that has people overrate content-light writing, focused on that produced by LLMs but extremely relevant to a lot of human writing:

Zvi, probably one of the best public intellectuals during the time of Covid, wrote up some interesting commentary on my VaccinateCA piece (and the initiative):