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Today, we kill the AI agent and introduce the AI employee: Lindy Teammate.
It’s just like working with a real employee.
Everyone on your team can simply hit it up on Slack and get 10x more done.
Lindy also keeps learning, and becomes the self-updating brain of the whole business.
Live now: lindy.ai
ME: when I was your age, we thought about things with our own brains
GRANDKID: oh wow! and you didn't fuck up?
ME: oh no we fucked up all the time
"Now we see that the abyss of history is deep enough to hold us all."
Absolutely stunning essay by @DouglasKMurray about the crisis in France. It includes this quote.
thefp.com/p/douglas-murray-f…
Flo Crivello retweeted
I've come to believe that it's a lack of self-reflection, not being conniving or manipulative, that makes someone a bad person.
Everyone engages in occasional behavior that is harmful. A "good person" takes that feedback to heart, takes responsibility for their actions, and tries to do better next time. A "bad person" pushes the thought away and refuses to reflect on their behavior.
Over time, doing that repeatedly - refusing to be morally accountable - is what makes someone a bad person. It doesn't mean they don't have the capacity for redemption, but it's impossible to collaborate with people who refuse to learn from iterated moral games.
Flo Crivello retweeted
Plus que jamais, mon conseil la mort dans l’âme aux jeunes qui veulent s’en sortir :
- soyez internationaux, mobiles, capables de travailler à l’étranger. Et allez-y.
- Si vous avez des actifs, mieux vaut autant que possible en avoir une part substantielle hors de France.
- Idéalement ayez deux passeports.
En toute lucidité, et même si on espère naturellement se tromper et que l’on veut se battre, à ce stade il y a peu de scénarios optimistes très réalistes pour notre pays. On va vers des moments très difficiles.
I think about this constantly. People assume that backsliding into barbarism is an unthinkable aberration, but it's actually the historical norm, and it's our current run that's unusual. Don't take it for granted!
We hugely underestimate the utter fragility of modernity.
Many times in history, we've turned the clock back to a much tougher & rougher past.
For centuries after Rome fell, Europeans couldn't even dream of things like hot piped water, luxurious baths & central heating.
We think that the real is rational, that the "system" will deliver the goods. The truth is that modern systems are like spiderwebs: break one part & the edifice gets exponentially weaker. Romans who lived through the fall must have been shocked at how quickly things fell apart.
Another period when we turned back the clock was when globalization was reversed right after an assassination in Sarajevo sparked WW1.
Keynes writes about this period eloquently. Things were hunky dory & considered permanently so, and then suddenly everything went wrong.
When we blithely mock our own systems with tribal glee, when we knock down institutions, when we take political pleasure in zero-sum fights, when we take war less than seriously, just remember that the cave, starvation & the tribal club are never too far away from modern life.
Even the most cynical, jaded and corrupt Romans of Nero's era must have been horrified at what they had unleashed once it was clear they were going way back in time. And once they went back, the only way forward was centuries of deprivation & painfully slow invention.
It's hard to correlate these events with our own era but just remember that Rome saw itself & its progress as eternal, ditto pre war Europe.
Modernity is God's greatest gift to us. Cherish it, cultivate it, protect it. Don't let systems get vandalized, institutions get wrecked.
Protecting modernity means protecting systems, institutions & norms of civilization. This is not some idle musing: these things stand between you & your family & chaos. Without truth, systems & objective laws, you don't get science. Without science, you don't get antibiotics.
As Rome fell, it's interesting to note that truth & facts became subordinated to pleasure, corruption, luxury & belief in magic.
It's worth thinking about that as you look at our civilization.
Modernity, technology, civilization are all very fragile things.
Seeing this in my circles -- several founder friends have told me they've started getting hit with a huge amount of frivolous lawsuits
France is now at Part III of Atlas Shrugged ("Their Brothers' Keeper" / "The Concerto of Deliverance"). When economic and political decay escalate into uncontrolled physical violence. You won't believe what happens next!
October 2026: agents are making running a business increasingly feel like playing a video game. Feedback loops are now so tight, you just move at the speed of thought. Expect to intensify until we no longer run businesses at all.
Flo Crivello retweeted
France is done
And any nation that takes its advice regarding how to govern will soon be gone itself
How I feel about France: sad, angry, completely unsurprised and, most of all: vindicated.
I left the country 15y ago for exactly this: to get as far from that dumpster fire, as fast as possible.
The worst part was that 0 people I knew got it. They didn't "disagree": they literally *didn't understand what I was saying.* It was like trying to explain color to a blind person. Felt like I was taking crazy pills.
So, 15y later, the chickens have come to roost, and I feel like I invested in the seed of a startup called "Europe is completely doomed" that is now going vertical.
Of course, most of the French still don't get it — they're much too brainwashed by the largely state-funded media for that. But it's not 0 anymore.
Good luck to them, and thanks for all the cheese!
Flo Crivello retweeted
American fire departments are also responsible for banning the beautiful cities (with narrow alleys, human-scale intersections, etc) you see in European and Asian cities. They are a scourge and must be opposed by every free-thinking urbanist.
Flo Crivello retweeted
Sometimes people who work in the extended AI ecosystem will say to me "I am not focused on RSI and xrisk because there is nothing I can actually do to stop it. I am going to trust the people in the lab know what they are doing and have it under control"
but when I talk to friends in the labs they are like "I am buying land under a different name a few hours outside the city so when the public learns what we have done and revolts against lab employees I will have somewhere safe to go" or "I am applying to nz/aus citizenship so I have another passport if things get bad" or "I am no longer excited for each new model release because it tips us closer and closer to loss of control"
Flo Crivello retweeted
Sometimes people who work in AI ecosystem will say to me 'yeah my pdoom is low because idk if AI will literally Terminator us all. However I am very worried that 1billion people will die in an AI assisted disaster such as a nuclear cyberhack' and im like omfg guys
Flo Crivello retweeted
The biggest, and stupidest, myth in European politics, particularly popular in France, is that Europe suffers the consequences of "austerity" and "neoliberalism". In the biggest 5 countries in Europe, more than half of the population makes its income from the state, less than half from the private sector. This is what makes the problem of reducing the welfare state so impossible: more than half of the voters are net recipients. No surprise that Italy's budget has not been balanced in 100 years, France's in 50 years (ooh la la, l'austérité!!):
-France: 30 million from the state versus 21m private sector workers. State spending is 57% of GDP, taxes more than half the economy. The budget hasn't been balanced in the lifetime of most French (since 1974).
- Germany: 35 million adults from the state, versus 34 million from the private sector. 10% of the population is registered as severely disabled. Public spending is over half of GDP. Germany has had a continuous budget deficit since 2019.
-Italy: 23 million from the state, versus 20.5 million private-sector workers. Public spending is 51% of GDP. Italy has had a budget deficit every year since 1925, for 100 years.
- Spain more people get their income from the state since 2024: 18.21 million from the public sector versus 17.9 million people working in the private sector. Since 2025, Spain also had more government employees than self-employed workers (autónomos) for the first time in history. State spending is at 45%, budget has not been balanced since 2007.
- UK: 54% of households now receive more in state benefits than they pay in taxes. State spending is 44.5% of GDP, taxes (40%) are at their highest since 1950, the budget hasn't been balanced since 2001, and 1 in 5 new cars is paid by the government through a bizarre state disability scheme (Motability).
