Nobody remembers how crazy the uk used to be with this stuff just 15 years ago

Very true

There are no good tech people in Europe any more. I'm going through Entrepreneur First right now -- three months in London, then the strongest teams take $250k and move to San Francisco. I've seen both ends of that pipe, and it only runs one way. My feed is wall to wall with the opposite story: the London AI scene, the Paris one, the endless posts about Europe's comeback. It's cope, and it gets louder as Europe fades into irrelevance. Look at who's left. The best people I knew in London have Bay Area addresses now, or they're working out how to get one. Nobody serious is moving the other way -- they're moving to San Francisco, a half-boarded-up, fentanyl-soaked, cultureless city. Europe's hype men post that way because facing reality means national, even continental, reform, and it is far easier to write "London is so back" than to do that. Posts ship, reform waits. A continent that exports its best builders will not stay rich or free for long. People come back when there's something worth building toward, a shared sense of what a country is, and what it wants to become.

Every part of my soul misses this

Average brit east India company soldier

POV you are an ASML engineer on vacation and these three ladies would really love to talk to you about your work.

English people when everybody uses our legal systems, political systems, industrial inventions and our language, but then say our culture isn't worth saving. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Crazy physiognomy on show

will miss this but it’s time to lock in

Selling SaaS in 2026.

This opens up many new business models

The average Entrepreneur First founder is smarter than the average YC founder. And they still lose. I'm going through Entrepreneur First right now. Six months — first three in London, then the best teams get $250k and move to San Francisco. I've now seen both ecosystems up close. The European founders I know are more rigorous. Better educated. More technically precise. They see the flaws in an idea before anyone else does. And that's exactly the problem. American founders post half-baked takes. They pitch before the product is ready. They talk about changing the world when they have twelve users. This is good. Europeans watch this and cringe. This is bad. But here's what I couldn't unsee: it's not that Americans are willing to look stupid. It's that they can't see it. American culture puts blinders on ambitious people — a protective blindness that shields them from how they appear. In the early-stage game, that's everything. You always look stupid before your view of the world is forced into existence. The question is whether you can keep going long enough to make it true. Europeans are too self-aware. They see the gap between what they're claiming and what they've proven. That awareness makes them hesitate. The Americans I met weren't smarter. They had a blindspot that functioned as armour. Harry Stebbings says Europeans need to work harder. I don't think that's it. What they won't do is risk embarrassment. This EF cohort is learning to live with cringe. Our investors will thank us for it

All a modern man needs

lol our enemy’s are our own propagandists

Life

sf is pretty decent