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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Lovers of RasoolAllah ﷺ @MawlidSufi]

There are people whose whole lives are Ramadan. Their Eid is the day on which they meet their Lord.

– Sayyid Habib Umar bin Hafiz (may Allah preserve him)

[Bovinomics @Bovinomics_]

Even if you don’t eat beef, cattle still affect you.

Feed
Fuel
Land
Transport
Food prices

It all connects.

This isn’t about diet.

It’s about systems.

[Bovinomics @Bovinomics_]

Everyone looks at inflation after it shows up.

I’m more interested in where it starts building.

Cattle are one of the clearest places to see that.

[Bovinomics @Bovinomics_]

Most people think cattle are just food.

They’re not.

They sit right in the middle of land, fuel, grain, weather, labor… all of it.

This account tracks the world through that lens.
Building the Cattle Index.

[عبد‎📿 @aspiringabd]

This Ramaḍān try to actualise this Ḥadīth.

The Prophet ﷺ said,

“Allah Almighty said: O son of Adam, use your free time to worship Me and I will fill your heart with riches and alleviate your poverty, otherwise I will fill your life with troubles and never relieve your

[Fred Björn @Jawnmard1]

For every [Qur'ānic] verse there are sixty thousand understandings (fahm), and what remains to be understood is even more.
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[turqoisè @tuurqoise]

Turkish Blue.

[serènity @cultureartislam]

Moroccan architecture.

[Ghareeb Faqir 🇵🇸 @ghareebfaqir]

“I would have raised you to be a street sweeper.” 🧹

These are the profound words of Shaykh Mulla Ramadan al-Bouti to his son, the late Shaykh Muhammad Sa’id Ramadan al-Bouti.

May Allah have mercy on Shaykh Mulla Ramadan and his son and grant us a portion of their sincerity.

[Classicals @_ClassicalSoul]

How beautiful are mathematics when visualized?

[turqoisè @tuurqoise]

Turkish Blue.

[Grace Chong, MBI @gc22gc]

BANNON: @benshapiro is like a cancer, and that cancer spreads. It metastasizes. He tried to take over Breitbart and I ran him out. He tried to take over David Horowitz’s, his mentor. Mark my words, he’ll make a move on @tpusa. He’s always been envious of Charlie Kirk.

[Happy Punch @HappyPunch]

50-year-old Anderson Silva just knocked out Tyron Woodley 🤯

Woodley now 0-3 in boxing

[DR22 Ω 🪬🎭 @DejaRu22]

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY PEOPLE (unconsciously) ARE CHOOSING TO SUPPRESS THEIR FIREPOWER IN FEAR OF OUTSHINING OTHERS. AFRAID TO STAND OUT. AFRAID TO BE SPECIAL. AFRAID WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN IF THEY ACTUALLY TRY. AFRAID TO SEE WHAT THEY'RE TRULY CAPABLE OF.

[Naoki Yamamoto @NaokiQYamamoto]

Tanaka Ippei (1882–1934) was one of the earliest Japanese Muslims. He published a biography of the Prophet Muhammad, translating it from a Chinese work by the Hui Muslim scholar Liu Zhi.