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It's exhausting - sometimes it feels like you are continuously redirecting a deviant child who just won't give up on his shenanigans.

No, they don't have world class technology teams, they hire contractors to do all the tech stuff, their expertise is in management, yes that's world class.

Yes, world class in causing human suffering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7pgDmR-pWg


Is it though? Managing teams to not torpedo your company with stupid stuff like this is kinda core to “good management.” The evidence would indicate they’re not very good at that either.

It’s a self fulfilling prophecy. They’re extremely expensive so they must be good so they must be worth it. And because at that level measurement is extremely subjective it’s mainly about the vibes.

Like everything it’s just marketing.


They were good. Not so good now.

When you can't convince, confuse is how you sum up corporate speak.

I can't believe that people are so naively optimistic - it's not too long that we fought endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to what end?

The Taliban ruling Afghanistan and an unstable coalition in Iraq.

You know how much we spent? $5.8 to $8 trillion.


War is America's business and business is good.


Yeah right and democracy was created in Iraq and Afghanistan as well!


Meanwhile Pakistan launched airstrikes on Afghanistan

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/feb/27/pakistan-...


This podcast between Tyler and Dan was a great listen - https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/dan-wang/

Dan came off as very China biased and Tyler literally schooled him on a few occasions.

But despite that, there are grains of truth in what he said, we have lawyers turned politicians at the helm in the US, so we have a great democratic system but on the flip side hardly any engineers leading us to the predicament we are in now, where nothing ever gets built.


Good for India, as it should, for far too long there was a brain drain from India > US.

India needs more entrepreneurs.


In narrow terms this is bad for Indian entrepreneurs since it drives up engineering costs for them. It's good for Indian tech employees though since they can demand higher compensation.

In broad terms it's good for the Indian tech ecosystem (and the economy in general).


But not particularly good for the startup ecosystem; it could make it even less attractive to not take a corporate job


I am more interested in 2nd order effects, people get experience working at these larger companies and leave to start their own. Exactly how SV works.


33K workers added in 2025 is a drop in the bucket for India. India graduates way too many engineers vs not as many jobs created.


It depends - construction workers in the US especially look like shit, given the crap that they eat - fast food, sodas and then beers after the job.

Go look at construction workers elsewhere, especially Asia, they're ripped. Because the food they eat is most likely home cooked and not the fast food garbage we get here. Even the food at kiosks is pretty good, since it's freshly cooked.


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