Klassik

Never stop Tinkering.

[Klassik @Klasssiks]

Well, we can now pin this instead of the teaser

[Edmond Ioannis Shami @EdmundShami]

Before spreadsheets and decision models, the Levant had proverbs.

Each one compressed centuries of experience about power, timing, loyalty, and survival.

I wrote a short book unpacking 12 of them.

The wait is over (at least, for me):

https://t.co/85MlczS6oF

[Klassik @Klasssiks]

The age of AI and semi-intellectuals (Intellectual yet Idiots - IYI):

Nothing will replace the deep dive and real intellectual mastery even with the age of LLMs. The problem nowadays is that we have much more IYIs, people who asked GPT about a topic & act as masters of the topic

[Klassik @Klasssiks]

Globalization effects back in the Roman Empire (Hauran to Rome)

[Klassik @Klasssiks]

Digital twins - 3D models or 3D thinking?

[Klassik @Klasssiks]

Talk about black swans ⬆️

[Klassik @Klasssiks]

There is something about the holy land / Palestine that has the power to captivate the entire world like no other land:

1) Jesus - who changed the entire world like no other figure in history have

2) the Palestinian cause - no other cause has been as widely spread, ever!

[Klassik @Klasssiks]

@DalrympleWill طولة العمر نشالله!

[Edmond Ioannis Shami @EdmundShami]

Wow! Pretty impressed that Warren Buffet & @nntaleb share the same exact view (Nassim uses the truck driver as his example though):

Warren would literally rather deliver papers rather than be the CEO of IBM/GE/GM.

Freedom matters more to the truly intellectual mind than money.

[Klassik @Klasssiks]

@GoujianofYue Need to start doing this

[Edmond Ioannis Shami @EdmundShami]

I watched Rafeef’s “we teach life sir” 15 years ago. Whenever a genocide/massacre happens in Palestine, I would go to YouTube and rewatch it. It’s a reminder, which still holds true to this day, every word she says, that we Palestinians, teach the whole world life, every day!

[Ghassan Chammas @ghchammas]

My late mother’s roses!! Spring in amioun lebanon

[Edmond Ioannis Shami @EdmundShami]

Shoutout to Eusebius of Caesarea, the Palestinian scholar who wrote the ideological 'constitution' that sustained the Byzantine Empire for a millennium.

[Dina Kawar @AmbKawar]

Today, Jordan formally joins the Artemis Accords at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.—marking a new chapter in over 77 years of U.S.-Jordan partnership.🇯🇴🚀 🇺🇸

This step extends a longstanding partnership in diplomacy, security, and development into the realm of space—advancing cooperation in science, innovation, and exploration.

Jordan combines a highly skilled talent base—guided by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II—with a strong push into AI, advanced manufacturing, and space, while offering unique sites like Wadi Rum, often described as “Mars on Earth”, for research, testing, and simulation in support of future missions.

#Jordan #ArtemisAccords #NASA #SpaceDiplomacy

[Edmond Ioannis Shami @EdmundShami]

Fall of Haifa, April 22nd, 1948

[Aamer @IbnKulthum]

The actual translation is far more poetic. “From here the first letter of literacy was launched towards every corner of Earth.”

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

Amen!!

[Klassik @Klasssiks]

Ironically, some in the west still advocate “educating Iraqis” 😂

[MENA Visuals @menavisualss]

“The first written words started here”

📍Uruk, Iraq (Mesopotamia)

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The Messianic illusion is that a single person σωτήρ (or, worse, a single action) will come to save the world, fix society, improve the economy, rescue the company, etc.

But advance comes from distributed progressive improvements, via negativa, mostly thanks to funerals.

[Edmond Ioannis Shami @EdmundShami]

Today I decided to do work as usual & hop on my RJ flight.

I felt proud of Royal Jordanian & MEA airlines & of the resilient people of Lebanon & Jordan whose focus on commerce transcends any challenge this region has seen.

We won’t let anyone stop us from living & thriving!

[✒️ @Literariium]

“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb