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Bits about Money

About the modern financial infrastructure that the world sits atop of.

  • By Patrick McKenzie
  • Based in Japan
  • Roughly one post per month
  • First post on

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Posts per month
Month starting Posts
Apr 2022 2
May 2022 1
Jun 2022 0
Jul 2022 2
Aug 2022 0
Sep 2022 4
Oct 2022 0
Nov 2022 1
Dec 2022 1
Jan 2023 4
Feb 2023 2
Mar 2023 1
Apr 2023 1
May 2023 1
Jun 2023 1
Jul 2023 0
Aug 2023 1
Sep 2023 1
Oct 2023 0
Nov 2023 2
Dec 2023 2
Jan 2024 1
Feb 2024 1
Mar 2024 1
Apr 2024 1
May 2024 0

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

The business of wallets
One of the best series of credit card commercials was the now-classic Capital One “What’s in your wallet?”, which reimagined the user as either an observer of or participant in family-friendly Viking raids. That always …
On , by Patrick McKenzie (patio11), 5,257 words
Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
There are only a few opportunities to make a living by getting good at creating tables to facilitate high-frequency math that end-users will find entertaining but will have predictable statistical properties at scale.One of them …
On , by Patrick McKenzie (patio11), 4,101 words
Financial systems take a holiday
All systems reflect the culture they are created in, in ways great and small. The financial system, and the human and computer systems which compose it, have inherited norms about when work is performed from …
On , by Patrick McKenzie (patio11), 4,427 words