POV: The last thing you see before immigration into your country is reduced but in a liberal and progressive-coded way

China consumed more coal in the last four years (2022–2025) than the entire world consumed throughout the 19th century.

In conversations with some technical founders and leaders in transition, I’m noticing existential angst around AI. For many builders, AI is intoxicating and empowering. They can build things they only dreamed of. But for some of the people I’m talking with, that excitement is overshadowed by a deep sense of loss. So much of what they’ve loved about working in technology has been the process of tinkering and learning as they build. For some, shipping was secondary. The satisfaction came from working through complexity, figuring things out, and getting better along the way. They don’t feel the same sense of exploration through prompting and waiting for the black box to spit out an answer, lines of code, or even an app. It’s like having an employee do the part they loved while they wait for the results. Yes, they can build faster, but they feel removed from the work itself. That’s left them befuddled and grieving. I suspect more workers will experience a meaning crisis as AI takes over parts of the work they loved. And they’ll need support finding their way through it.

2 years on this platform, already feels like an eternity. Even if most of the interactions here are garbage, just a few interesting and nice people make up for it because intellectual debate has mostly disappeared from daily life.

Scatter plot of EU government debt vs deficit or surplus for 2025: Another Danish win?

Fun fact: Sweden has four nuclear reactors that have each generated more electricity than all Danish wind turbines ever. Forsmark 3 and Oskarshamn 3 started in 1985, the year Denmark banned nuclear. Both still ahead of Denmark’s entire wind fleet.

9% GDP of current account and half of GDP growth are generated by this shit👇🏻

Scatter plot of EU government debt vs deficit or surplus for 2025: Another Danish win?

AI found a critical vulnerability in PHP. European hospitals and government websites started going offline to patch it. PHP powers a huge share of the web. We may have just entered the age where AI finds catastrophic bugs faster than humans can patch them.