Flo Crivello

A prominent VC recently posted a long thread on Twitter about his conversations with ChatGPT, which had convinced him he was experiencing an attack from a "non-governmental entity" to disrupt his "recursion".

It feels like there's a new tech scandal every week these days — companies spying on their competitors, startups lying on their metrics during fundraising, etc.

We recently onboarded a new PM at Lindy — spent a full night working on her onboarding guide, which turned into a "PM Standard of Performance," which turned into the tactical guide I wish I had when I got started.

One of the main things standing in the way of people’s success is their desire to be liked, making them sacrifice objective correctness for social acceptability.

You should take much more risk, and try new things much more often.

I drew this myself, obviously The best analogy I’ve heard for startups is that they’re like looking for gold.

This is a memo I sent to the Lindy team last month, with slight edits.

I'm getting very worried about AGI, for a few reasons: We're ahead of even the most optimistic timelines — what's happening with transformers is taking everyone by surprise.

“Hell is other people.”

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” — Shakespeare A few years ago, Silicon Valley was buzzing with the reverberations of Marc Andreessen’s epic essay, It’s Time To Build.

Publishing this memo I shared with Teamfellows.

I strongly recommend General Magic, a documentary about the eponymous company, founded in 1990 with a clear vision of what smartphones could be, and how huge they could be.

I ran this poll the other day on Twitter: Which would you prefer, assuming both cost $700 (and no dual boot) — Flo Crivello (@Altimor) September 12, 2019 The answers highlight a point I often make: that when people buy an iPhone for $1,100, they’re really…

In his seminal book Seeing Like a State, James Scott describes what he calls “high modernists:” lovers of orders who mistake complexity for chaos, and rush to rearrange it from the ground up in a more centralized, orderly fashion.

Marshall McLuhan’s theory that “the medium is the message” famously describes how media are not neutral.