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.

"Taking pictures of the contents of your freezer" sounds so tedious. It's a solution looking for a problem!

A friend owned farm land in India, he moved to Canada. The property deed was in his name.

Someone in India, with fraudulent documents "sold" his land.

He only came to know about it when he next visited India. Unfortunately he could not do much. There are people who will actively look through property records - if the person is not a local resident ( lives internationally ), then they are prime targets.

This was a decade ago - things have gotten a lot better with digital records and India's Universal ID system. But I did not realize, something like this was possible in the US.

This is very prevalent in South Africa, to the point there is a legal cottage industry around verifying original documents vs counterfits (down to fingerprint testing, chemical analysis of inks).

Reminds me about what my uncle told me (not India though): As a foreigner or someone local out of the country for extended period you rent a caretaker and pay them enough so they don't leave the property unattended. And build a fence around it.