I K Taher

Entrepreneur & investor. Owner at Sharing lessons from history that still matter

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@readswithravi Conn Igulden Genghis Series

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@JDVance As a “westernized” Saudi, this is actually a thing…

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@mishtal Today I was invited to a dinner in Dubai. It was mostly with European aristocracy, who moved to the UAE. I asked them why? Since they are the “European dream” - why move to an Arab country?
The consensus was “We’ve had enough of this shit”…

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@igor_mikerin @Polymarket @PolymarketTrade Arsenal did not win the premier league, (they probably will bottle it) , but on the video it says won.

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So thousands of ambitious young men did what people always do when the ladder disappears:

They looked outward.

Not because they wanted to abandon Europe, necessarily, but because Europe had no room left for them.

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11th-century Europe ran on a rigid hierarchy:

Kings → nobles → knights → peasants.

Land meant wealth, and most of it was already locked up by kings, top nobles, and the Church.

If you were a lesser knight or a younger son, you had status on paper - but no real way to rise at home.

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“What injures the hive injures the bee.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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When he was kidnapped by pirates at 25 years old.

Caesar hears they’re only asking 20 talents of silver for him, and literally laughs in their faces:

“You idiots, I’m worth at least 50." They raise it. He sends his allies to raise the money. They pay. He’s freed.

Then, the second he’s free, he hires ships, tracks the exact same pirates down, captures them, and crucifies every last one.

Just like he casually promised while he was still their prisoner, joking over dice games.

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

What Julius Caesar's finest moment?

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2. “Everything is a loan from nature; soon nature will reclaim it.”

Everything we "own" is on a loan.

A little darker, but there's merit in realizing that death doesn't care about your bank account, your titles, or how cleverly you structured your assets.

The only thing that survives you is what you built into other people - the thinking you passed down, the systems you created, the values you embedded while you were still here.

This is why the true meaning of inheritance has nothing to do with what you leave behind passively, but what you build actively during life.

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1. "Take care that you are not Caesarified, or dyed in purple, for such things can happen. Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and free."

This is Marcus warning himself not to be corrupted by imperial power.

Every politician enters office promising they won't become like the others, every entrepreneur swears they won't become the detached CEO they once criticised.

But power & status do stain us, no matter how pure our intentions are, starting slowly and seeping deeper over time.

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@GadSaad Some Gulf countries. UAE is known to do this for most major religious holidays / cultural events

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@PM_ViktorOrban @PervakYuri

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@sajwani Yikes

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@elonmusk Elon, since new cities are going to be built, you should lead the creation of one inspired by ancient Rome—blending classical architecture with cutting-edge technology. Would be so epic!

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@PolitlcsUK Please get into politics!

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@MikeTyson You are an inspiration to us all. Thank you Mike.

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I employ around 10k people in the Kingdom, 10 years ago, the business had barely any female employees. The YoY increase in female employment is over 250%, and is now a significant part of the business. This also includes management positions. This had nothing to do with PR, they are extremely qualified and deserve every bit of it. You sir have no idea what you’re talking about.

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@trifpilled many of the individual ones took about that long. thanks for checking into this!