Edoardo Crivellaro

Business & Ops Wide thinker addicted to first principles. Deliberate deoptimizer. Moderate optimist.

[Edoardo Crivellaro @ECrivellaro]

@thealepalombo Modena should be here

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

No VC money, no massive enterprise accounts, no sales teams, no growth hacking, no retention specialists ... Just exceptional, self-service, word-of-mouth project management software for small/medium-sized businesses. Just Basecamp.

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

Sat down with @davidsenra to discuss what reading 400+ founder biographies actually teaches you about life.

0:00 The Lazy Workaholic
1:20 Forcing Yourself to Show Up
3:27 Chip on Your Shoulder
6:14 Driving Competitors Out of Business
7:07 Born in the Wrong Spot
7:47 Self-Education as Escape
8:01 Kanye's Self-Belief
14:53 Rewiring Your Own Brain
15:55 Curating Your Information Diet
17:14 Sofa Friends vs. Treadmill Friends
20:29 You Only Get One Life
21:17 Joseph Pulitzer & Yellow Journalism
21:28 Why David Ignores the News
22:23 David's Grandfather Escapes Cuba
23:08 One Decision Changes Everything
25:10 John Mackey & Whole Foods
25:22 Find a Simple Idea
26:16 Todd Graves' Chicken Finger Dream
27:27 Thirty Years, Same Menu
28:05 Graves Never Leaves the Customer
30:34 The Billion-Dollar Idea Reframe
34:01 Michael Jordan Listens
36:01 Steve Jobs Fires Non-Disagreers
39:10 Charlie Munger Argues Both Sides
40:07 Wise People Avoid Problems
42:39 Munger's Four or Five Friends
46:35 Ruthlessly Edit Who Gets Access
46:55 Daniel Ek: Swedish Buddha
51:24 Rick Rubin's House on the Mountain
53:12 Make What You'd Want to Consume
1:01:06 Four Ways Success Destroys You
1:02:09 Megalomania & the Death Spiral
1:06:49 James Dyson: Against the Odds
1:13:09 Never Go to Sleep on a Win
1:22:10 Fear of Falling Off
1:28:45 Internal vs. External Scorecard

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[Alfred Lin @Alfred_Lin]

https://t.co/5GJgF8yMc6

[Zach Brandon @MVP_Mindset]

Rory McIlroy on the paradox of chasing success.

“I think it would be a pretty unfulfilling pursuit if you’re just chasing records and chasing results…If all you’re thinking about is winning and results, you’re playing the wrong game.”

One of the great paradoxes of performance is that the outcomes we want are rarely achieved by obsessing over the outcomes themselves.

Ironically, the less your identity depends on the outcome, the more freedom you often have to perform at your best.

If you enjoy golf or mental game lessons, follow along this weekend as I’ll be sharing more highlights and insights from the Open championship.

🎥: The Open

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Jeff Bezos once said:

“The world wants you to be typical—in a thousand ways, it pulls at you. Don't let it happen. You have to pay a price for your distinctiveness, and it's worth it.”

[a16z @a16z]

The biggest AI adopters are increasing entry-level hiring.

Charts of the Week: https://t.co/b6vvV3acMy

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Engineers at Coinbase are getting closer to recursive self-improvement, or loops.

For instance, agents can now ingest and summarize customer feedback collected right in the app, prioritize bugs and features based on that feedback, draft the code, security review it, and provide it to a human engineer for final review. All happens automatically each day and it learns from the human edits to improve over time.

We're finding more areas to introduce loops across the company. Instead of prompting agents with what to do, you can increasingly give them a goal, and they bring back high quality work for you to review.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

A huge amount of the Anti-AI code sentiment massively overestimates the quality of human code outside of a very small set of open source and high quality company codebases. Human Slop is everywhere and can trivially be improved on by any opus level model.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This sentence by Sigmund Freud hits so hard:

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Economist Milton Friedman on the work required to hold an opinion:

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Paul Graham's March 2026 essay, "The Brand Age," is one of the smarter pieces I've read related to men's style. Although it's about watches, the theory is broadly applicable to a lot of things, esp as menswear devolves into polo shirts and chinos. Worth Googling and reading.

[Alessandro Aresu @alearesu]

"Sto leggendo libri su Deng Xiaoping e su Mao. Imparo molto da loro. Non sono d'accordo con Mao su nulla, ma penso che nessuno possa permettersi di non imparare" (Alex Karp)

[George Sivulka @gsivulka]

https://t.co/aLTltYpmcj

[Wimbledon @Wimbledon]

Winning here marks greatness. Defence leaves no doubt.

Jannik Sinner is the 2026 Gentlemen's Singles Champion.

#Wimbledon

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Something I told 14 yo: People are going to stop reading books. I wish this wasn't so, but I fear it is. The silver lining in this cloud is that if you're one of the few people who still read, you'll have a huge advantage over everyone else.

[Edoardo Crivellaro @ECrivellaro]

@signulll Reading? Only on X?

[Autosport @autosport]

Kimi Antonelli got to share Centre Court with Roger Federer at Wimbledon today 🤝🐐

[Bastien Fachan @BastienFachan]

Roger Federer x Kimi Antonelli 💫

[Edoardo Crivellaro @ECrivellaro]

On Thursday, Microsoft announced a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier Company, focused on delivering successful enterprise AI deployments with Microsoft’s existing AI tools. The project will be backed by a $2.5 billion investment from Microsoft, as well as 6,000 industry and engineering experts.https://t.co/15neARB7iy