Flo Crivello (@altimor), former product manager and engineer at Uber, and now starting his next thing, joins Erik to discuss:

- Lessons he learned at Uber, and what he might have done differently if he were in charge of strategy.

- How transportation is evolving and who the winners in the space might be.

- Why the decentralized model works at Uber.

- What people misunderstand about the history of tech and Silicon Valley.

- Whether egalitarianism is eating the world.

- Libertarianism, government, and progress.

- His thoughts on Twitter and thinking in public.

- His book reviews and explanations of why several books in particular are powerful.

- The differences between France and the USA and why they have persisted.

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