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Posted by Amorymeltzer 1/1/2026

2025 Letter(danwang.co)
398 points | 323 commentspage 5
jstummbillig 1/1/2026|
Wait, how funny is this guy. That's an easy top 10 funny person out of nowhere in my life.
websiteapi 1/1/2026||
USA is cooked sadly, that being said being Britain 2.0 ain't too bad. pretty much all the YC companies in the past few cohorts just are desperately rent seeking, sad but true - go look urself
ralph84 1/1/2026||
The Europe of today is the result of 400 years of brain drain. It would take generations to reverse the effects, if anyone even wanted to.
jimnotgym 1/1/2026|
Where were the brains draining to 350 years ago?
senordevnyc 1/2/2026||
America
jimnotgym 1/2/2026||
So brains were leaving Europe for European colonies then? Hardly a brain drain if they were still in your country.
senordevnyc 1/4/2026||
Yeah, and how’d that work out?
jimnotgym 1/7/2026||
After 200 years France fought for their independence to spite the British?
pr337h4m 1/1/2026|
> Which of the tech titans are funny? In public, they tend to speak in one of two registers. The first is the blandly corporate tone we’ve come to expect when we see them dragged before Congressional hearings or fireside chats. The second leans philosophical, as they compose their features into the sort of reverie appropriate for issuing apocalyptic prophecies on AI.

This is just not accurate though? For example, this post from a tech titan might not necessarily be that funny but it's neither blandly corporate nor philosophical: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2006548935372902751

thundergolfer 1/1/2026|
1. Elon is not funny. He’s deeply unfunny. 2. “Tend to” is the key bit you’re missing. It “tends to” be true that titans speak in those registers, even if it is true that Elon, a titan, a does not.