Ibrahim Siyad Qasim

Hospitality. Aviation. Energy. Infrastructure.
Maldives.

[Ibrahim Siyad Qasim @IbrahimQasim]

Be the people who love to learn; and love to teach, who liberate and innovate, who include others in the process of thinking imaginatively, and who challenge everyone around them to create a better world.

[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?

[Linda Yaccarino @lindayaX]

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[HFI Research @HFI_Research]

Well done JPM.

It is just math.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Loss of energy output in MidEast will take about two years to recover, IEA says https://t.co/cSM9ZPaGE0 https://t.co/cSM9ZPaGE0

[a16z @a16z]

Oil matters a lot less than it used to

More charts: https://t.co/vvpPUV7FqY

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

WEEKEND READ: What is the price of oil — the real one?

My attempt to shed light into the PHYSICAL and FINANCIAL oil markets, and why you can pick up a barrel of crude for $78 in Kansas or $286 in Sri Lanka.

@Opinion #IranWar‌

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[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

Iran has rowed back on its decision to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, warning that it would continue to block transit through the hugely important waterway as long as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports remained in effect.

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

Strait of Hormuz observations:

1) Clearly, there's some movement: ~10 LPG / products / oil tankers are crossing (but includes dark fleet)

2) At the same time, other oil tankers have stopped after approaching

3) All the (vissible) traffic is via the new Iranian shipping lanes

[Midhuam Saud(米渡）🇲🇻 @Midhuamsaud]

This is deeply concerning.

Pesticide residue analysis from Thoddoo shows multiple crops exceeding EU safety limits, including banned chemicals like Carbaryl and Diafenthiuron detected in everyday foods like cucumber, papaya, and spinach.

This isn’t just overuse. This is a public health risk.

We need urgent monitoring, accountability, and farmer education before this becomes a crisis.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: European airports are facing 'systemic' jet fuel shortages 'within three weeks' if the Strait of Hormuz is not fully reopened, according to Financial Times report.

[سعود حافظ | Saud Hafiz @saudrahman27]

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia operates one of the world's largest dairy herds in the middle of the desert. The company Almarai alone keeps over 195,000 cows, using advanced cooling systems to keep them at 21-23°C (70-73°F) while outside temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F).

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Lots of people are losing their shit because Trump called the Iranian leadership "crazy bastards" and said "praise be to Allah" on Easter Sunday

To me this doesn't bother me at all. Trump has always been unfiltered

However, what worries me greatly is the threat: "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day"

This is civilian infrastructure; causing civilian harm to achieve military objectives

That's not ok. I know the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is terrible for the global economy, putting Trump in a corner, but the solution is not causing harm to civilians, the same civilians Trump praised in January and promised to support during the protests

These threats constitute a crime under international humanitarian law:

Article 51: “The civilian population as such, as well as individual civilians, shall not be the object of attack.”

Article 48: "Parties shall at all times distinguish between the civilian population and combatants… and accordingly shall direct their operations only against military objectives.”

For the sake of the Iranian people, I urge Iran's leadership to accept some concessions to end the war soon, and I urge Trump not to deliver on his threats

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

💯 The difference between 4% growth and 2% growth is doubling the economy every 18 years vs every 36 years. For the material welfare and living standards of the citizenry, literally nothing matters more than that.

[QatarEconForum @QatarEconForum]

"As a long-term investor you can't be lucky...Someone can be lucky in the short-term, but over the long run, you can't afford to be lucky," @kia_gov_kw Managing Director H.E. Sheikh Saoud Salem Abdulaziz Al-Sabah on successful long-term investing.

#QatarEconomicForum
#منتدى_قطر_الاقتصادي

[QatarEconForum @QatarEconForum]

"Risk avoidance ends up in return avoidance. We have to knowingly, intelligently take risk for profit," @Oaktree Co-Chairman Howard Marks discusses the definition of the risk to take in investing with @MyStephanomics.

#QatarEconomicForum
#منتدى_قطر_الاقتصادي

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Verdad

[From Growth To Value @FromValue]

Aswath Damodaran put out his ERP (equity risk premium) numbers per country.👀

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The amount of steel in a wind turbine foundations.

[Ibrahim Siyad Qasim @IbrahimQasim]

Wonder what drainage requirement is like for the kind of rainfall yesterday? Maybe about 600kt

If we were able to drain 30kt ; we still need to improve pump out requirements a whole lot more

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