Patrick McKenzie reads and expands on his Bits about Money essays about the plumbing of the financial system, such as payments finality, credit card economics and charitable giving infrastructure. Each episode pairs an explanation of how the system works with concrete case studies and updated postscripts.

Nate Hagens hosts long-form conversations and writes essays on the systems science behind the human predicament, covering energy, economics, ecology, and human behavior. Readers get episode summaries, discussion questions, and links to show notes for deeper exploration.

A systemic engineering newsletter mixing sharp tech criticism, systems theory and playful essayistic fiction about observability, socio-technical systems and team dynamics. Readers get dense, witty essays that take apart tech jargon and reframe engineering practice through cybernetics and personal experience.

Each issue is a short philosophical essay that opens with a sharp thesis and develops it through concrete examples, such as traffic equilibria or shifting social norms. Readers get an accessible account of how simplification, collective belief and unintended system effects shape what people understand and do.