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.