Patrick McKenzie on Navigating Complex Systems (Ep. 201)
Conversations with Tyler, January 10, 2024
Abstract
Few can measure the impact of a blog post they wrote, in the millions of dollars a year, but Patrick McKenzie has the receipts
Quotes from this work
There’s a thing that I would have put a high probability on prior to VaccinateCA, that VaccinateCA increased my credence on, which is that relative to credentialed talent in institutions, like — throw a dart at the dartboard about it. Let’s say county health departments, for example. They are fully educated in their field. They are credentialed. There’s a democratic process that ultimately backstops the county health department.
Jay Rando, person on the internet: “Can’t we be better at important facets of pandemic preparedness given, hmm, two to six weeks versus a county health department that is prepared for exactly this problem for their entire professional career?” Yes. Straightforwardly, yes.