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Patrick McKenzie - VaccinateCA and Institutional Dysfunction

Patrick McKenzie - VaccinateCA and Institutional Dysfunction

Update: 2025-10-20
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Patrick McKenzie (aka patio11) is a strategic advisor at Stripe, an angel investor, writes the fortnightly newsletter ‘Bits About Money’ about financial infrastructure, and was CEO of the extraordinary VaccinateCA effort in 2021. Patrick and I previously spoke on his show ‘Complex Systems’ about system dynamics, local government challenges, and organisational scar tissue. Here we follow up on what the insane VaccinateCA saga tells us about modern institutional dysfunction, and how we might avoid repeating the terrible mistakes of 2021.

Read the full transcript with inline notes here:

https://alethios.substack.com/p/patrick-mckenzie-vaccinateca

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Patrick McKenzie - VaccinateCA and Institutional Dysfunction

Patrick McKenzie - VaccinateCA and Institutional Dysfunction