Audiolog

An audio link blog from James King, packaged as a podcast.
Published about once a week.

Ep 27 • 27 April 2026 • 13m

Useful and competent technicians, like dentists

Clips from JerryrigEverything, Grant Sanderson, Dan Davies, Works in Progress and Why Nations Fail.

• 1m 12s

JerryrigEverything built a wheelchair. Faster, cheaper, better. https://notawheelchair.com/

• 1m 25s

Grant Sanderson talking to Dwarkesh Patel about mathematical intuition (Dwarkesh podcast)

• 1m 40s

From Chapter 17 of Dan Davies' The Unaccountability Machine.

• 1m 52s

From Chapter 17 of Dan Davies' The Unaccountability Machine.

• 2m 34s

From Chapter 17 of Dan Davies' The Unaccountability Machine.

• 2m 32s

Ruxandra Teslo discusses the challenge of identifying and developing new surrogate endpoints for clinical trials, with Saloni Dattani and Ben Southwood. (Works in Progress podcast)

• 1m 48s

From chapter 2 of Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson.