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The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up

Posted on September, 2019 by florentcrivello

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 r...

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Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World

Posted on April, 2019 by florentcrivello

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

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Five Promises of Micromobility

Posted on January, 2019 by florentcrivello

Disclaimer: I’m a product manager at Uber. This piece represents my views only, and not those of people working on behalf of Uber. A wave of electric scooters a...

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The best companies to start a career in tech

Posted on November, 2018 by florentcrivello

Every time someone, and especially a new grad, asks me for recommendations of companies they should apply to, I point them to the excellent yearly “Career...

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Own the Demand

Posted on October, 2018 by florentcrivello

Disclaimer: I’m a product manager at Uber. This piece represents my views only, and not those of Uber, fellow employees, managers, customers, clients, sup...

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Go West, Young Man

Posted on September, 2018 by florentcrivello

If you’re in tech, you need to move to San Francisco. The advice holds especially if you’re a student, not having dug your roots too deeply anywhere...

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Mind the Moat, a 7 Powers Review

Posted on July, 2018 by florentcrivello

The Lindy Effect has become my top heuristic to decide what to read next. This phenomenon describes how some things tend to live longer, the longer they’v...

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Nobody Cares

Posted on May, 2018 by florentcrivello

A friend was commenting on how active I was on Twitter, telling me how he held back from posting anything online, out of shyness. I answered that that was my de...

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A Long Week-End in Mexico

Posted on March, 2018 by florentcrivello

I took a trip to Mexico City over the long weekend — it was my first time there, and I absolutely loved it. The city surprised me in many ways, and didn’t...

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Favorite Books of 2017

Posted on December, 2017 by florentcrivello

Biographies Einstein: His Life and Universe Definitely the best biography I’ve read this year. It combines details into what’s probably the most inc...

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Heroes on the Shoulders of Giants

Posted on November, 2017 by florentcrivello

Epistemic status: I’m outside of my circle of competence when it comes to AI. That said, most of this post is just logical reasoning, independent of AI-specific...

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Book Review: Exit, Voice and Loyalty

Posted on November, 2017 by florentcrivello

Exit is an important part of capitalism: by allowing consumers to take their money anywhere they please, it trims out inefficient firms, drives productivity and...

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