Hassan

Energy Trading 🌍 | Lifelong Learner 📚 | Currently in the East of the Middle East 🏝️ | Here to grow, guide & give back. DM open. Views mine.

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

Every pound you lose takes 4 pounds of pressure off your knees and 6 pounds off your hips.

A 5% reduction in body weight can result in a 50% reduction in joint pain.

Most people don't have joint issues. They have weight issues.

[Tracy Shuchart (𝒞𝒽𝒾 ) @chigrl]

Cushing inventories are scraping bottom of the tanks again at 23.024M barrels as of today's EIA report.

Stated capacity is ~90M, but realistically working capacity is ~76M as you have to leave room at the tops of the tanks for transfers and the functional minimum is ~20 million barrels.

Fun fact: The actual WTI futures contract you are all trading, is Cushing (why it is separated out on the inventory reports).

[Jay Bisen @JayBisen473370]

2. Steve Jobs to Adobe CEO, Bruce Chizen

[Amena Bakr @Amena__Bakr]

ADNOC today launched a global LNG
marketing and trading platform in Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), combining the marketing activities of ADNOC Gas and XRG with the trading capabilities of ADNOC Trading into an
integrated commercial platform. #OOTT #Adnoc

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

Saudi Arabia slashes the official selling price of its flagship Arab Light, pricing the barrels for Asia delivery at **minus** $1.5 a barrel to the Dubai benchmark.

It's the largest **discount** for Arab Light to Asia since mid-2020, when the world was still battling Covid-19.

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

Your mind can become your biggest asset or your biggest liability.

Train it to solve problems, not manufacture them.

[Oil Bandit 🛢️ @OilCfd]

Time to find another hobby

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

WARNING: Longer post (but worth reading or bookmarking for later).

Your life has seasons.

Each one is unique. Characterized by its own distinct desires, struggles, opportunities, and identity.

But one reflection I've had recently is just how easy it is to completely disassociate with the present season.

To give all your time and energy toward a longing for some nostalgic memory of a prior season or an anticipation for some beautiful state of a future season.

You look back at the past and all you see is sunshine. Because it all worked out. You forget (or glaze over) the struggle you endured. You're here today. You made it. You're alive. You're doing fine.

You look forward at the future and dream on what could be. You'll have so much more. More freedom. More purpose. More health. More deep connection. More everything.

The past is beautiful and the future feels limitless. So, logically, you slowly start to treat everything about the present as the bridge. A dash connecting your past and your future. A gap to be crossed as quickly as possible.

Everything you do today is in anticipation of some eventual end state.

I'm doing this now, so that I can have that later.

Unfortunately, the danger of that dissociation with the present is significant. You may spend your entire life living for a future that has a decidedly mirage-like property. You inch closer, but when it's right in front of you, it disappears and reappears on the horizon.

You may spend your entire life skipping through the present, deferring your presence, your joy, and your very humanity to a future that never comes.

In a classic French fable, a young boy is gifted with a magic ball of golden thread. He's told that if he simply pulls on the thread, time will leap forward. The catch, of course, is that once it's pulled, it can never be put back.

The young boy takes advantage of the newfound powers. Each time he's faced with a boring day at school, a frustrating set of chores, or a scolding from his parents, he pulls the thread, skipping through to the good parts.

As an adult, he continues, leaping through mundane struggles in his marriage, the friction of having a newborn, and the boredom at work. He finds himself pulling on the thread more and more, avoiding even the most minor inconveniences of his life.

But when he wakes up one day and sees an old man looking back at him in the mirror, he's filled with regret. He realizes in that moment that as he chose to skip through the boredom, struggles, and friction, so too did he miss the real texture of being alive.

How often do we all do the same? How easily do we default into this disassociation? Disconnecting from the present in anticipation of some future.

A mentor recently asked me this:

"Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?"

It hit me hard.

And to be honest, I haven't stopped replaying those words since he said them.

Why are you in such a rush?

The world wants you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines.

In doing so, you slowly relinquish your agency. You give up your claim on your own life. Surrender authorship to a pen that was never even yours.

In a world that wants you to rush, the ultimate act of rebellion is presence.

Be in the season you're in. Don't romanticize the past, don't fantasize the future. Be here. Be now. Be in this. All of its texture, depth, and struggle. All of its joy, tension, and pain. Sit with the uncertainty. Become friends with it. Fall in love with it.

Because every single thing you do today is something your younger self dreamed of and something your older self will wish they could go back and do.

The good old days are happening, right now.

And the next time you find yourself skipping through the present, remember these words:

Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

"Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack in everything / That's how the light gets in."

—Leonard Cohen

[Justin Welsh @thejustinwelsh]

If you believe in something, say it plainly and directly.

The right people will move closer, and the wrong ones drift off.

Both outcomes are excellent.

[Hassan @HassanNJan]

@Bilalbinsaqib

[@levelsio @levelsio]

A fun exercise is exporting your 5+ year of chat logs and putting it in Claude Code to do psychoanalysis of yourself

[Justin Welsh @thejustinwelsh]

Pick your spouse, your work, your nutrition, and where you live very carefully.

Everything else matters less.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Adversity doesn’t build character; it reveals it.

Related: Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

To fall asleep you first pretend to be asleep. That's how everything in life works.

[Kpler @Kpler]

Hormuz traffic sees a sharp d/d uptick

Confirmed Strait of Hormuz crossings rose to 70 on 24 June, up 105% day on day, as demining efforts advanced and operators increasingly used the Omani route. Commercial traffic accounted for most activity, with 53 transits, while low-risk vessels dominated the day’s profile. The US-Iran MoU framework and apparent lifting of the US blockade appear to have supported a short-term confidence boost, although IRGC warnings against use of the Omani route could create a new source of contention.

IMO-route use picked up slightly, but continued Dark routing, incomplete demining and unresolved issues over inspections, sanctions and future Strait governance mean the rebound is not yet a confirmed return to pre-crisis conditions.

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[Paul Graham @paulg]

The best predictor of success for tech companies, at every stage from during the YC batch to public company with billions in revenue, is the rate of shipping new stuff.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Lee Kuan Yew:

“Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency."

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

You will never win at anything, if you are afraid of taking chances.

[Forbes @Forbes]

Quote of the day. #qotd