Refining Capacity Is Strategic Power🛢️🏭
Crude oil only matters if you can turn it into usable products.
That is why refineries are so important.
-Gasoline
-Diesel
-Jet fuel
-LPG
-Naphtha
-Petrochemicals
The world’s largest refineries are not just industrial assets.
They are strategic chokepoints in the energy system.
India, South Korea, the US, Nigeria, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela all show the same thing:
Energy security is also about having the capacity to process it.
A company with no airport experience wins six airports. An anti-monopoly safeguard disappears. A border restriction is relaxed. The same group becomes the biggest beneficiary.
@PoojaPrasanna4 unpacks the Adani story in Let Me Explain.
The magnitude of what just happened may take some time to sink in.
This is the first time Iran has struck Israel after Israel struck another country's territory (that is, not Iran).
This means that the battle lines have been moved.
Iran's deterrence had already been restored in the sense that Israel knew that any strike on it would be responded to.
But now, Iran has proven that it will also respond to Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
This is the first time in decades that a regional power has the means, capacity, and willingness to put hard power against Israeli military maneuvers or aggression against a third party.
Read full analysis here: https://t.co/CPawJ4TYdr
Women don’t realize this simple thing: by the virtue of being a woman, if you are a woman of substance, you don’t need to ask for respect, you get it. If you have to ask, the problem is absolutely with you.
Girls who want to sleep with you might:
• Jokingly insult you
• Pretend to ignore you
• Outright tell you to leave
She's testing your masculine Frame.
Do not be discouraged by this behavior.
Remember just a couple years ago when using electricity and diesel caused climate change, now data centers use as much power as cities and its no problem
Your IDGAF rock-solid frame.
Your unbreakable mindset of “I don’t give a f*ck what she thinks of me” is the ultimate multiplier. It’s the foundation everything else stands on. A man with average looks and solid frame will beat a good-looking guy who’s needy every single time.
Fintechs have spent a decade building products that demand our attention.
Dashboards. Notifications. Ledgers. Weekly summaries. Streak counters.
The implicit assumption is that engagement equals brand recall and trust.
This is exactly backwards.
Think about the financial products Indians trust most deeply: the SBI savings account, the LIC policy, the HDFC FD. Nobody checks these obsessively. They are, in the most literal sense, forgotten.
Now think about the products that generate the most daily opens: crypto apps, trading platforms, leveraged portfolio trackers. People stare at these constantly - not because they love them, but because they're terrified.
High engagement in finance is a symptom of anxiety, not loyalty.
The goal of a truly great financial product is to become invisible. To be the thing that is simply there, like a good plumber - recalled only when something goes wrong, trusted completely the rest of the time.
If you are in the IT industry with 15+ years of experience and age from the late 30's or in 40s, don't even dare to take another flat if you have one.
This will cost you like hell.
Exceptional people are rare. When you find someone wonderful, invest in them.
-When you find a great employee, pay them well.
-When you find a great friend, prioritize the relationship.
-When you find a great spouse, out-love them each day.
Relationships are probably the most important part of life. Take care of the great ones.
No, you cannot walk 10,000 steps daily, get 8 hours of sleep, cook every night, clean every day, take care of a family, make time for your own hobbies, and still be productive at work every day. This is not just propaganda, it is nonsense. Free yourself from it.