The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for 8 days. Everyone thinks this is about oil. This is about what oil becomes. 92% of the world's sulfur comes from refining oil and gas. Close the Strait of Hormuz and you don't just lose 20 million barrels of crude per day. You lose the feedstock for sulfuric acid, the single most produced chemical on Earth. Sulfuric acid is how we extract copper. It's how we extract cobalt. Without it, you can't make transformers, EV batteries, or the substrates inside every data center on the planet. One chemical, made from one feedstock, shipped through one chokepoint. The cascade goes further: Qatar ships 30% of Taiwan's liquefied natural gas through Hormuz. Taiwan has 11 days of reserves left. TSMC, the company that makes 90% of the world's advanced chips, draws 8.9% of Taiwan's total electricity. No gas, no power, no chips. Then food. 33% of the world's nitrogen fertilizer feedstock moves through the Strait. Half of all humans alive today exist because of synthetic nitrogen. Sulfur, semiconductors, food. That makes three supply chains, one 21-nautical-mile chokepoint, and zero domestic alternatives at scale.
سب سے بڑا سوال یہ ہے کہ #گولی_کیوں_چلائی اور حکم کس کا تھا؟ کیا آپ نے عوام کی نفرتوں کا نہیں سوچا تھا اس قتل عام کے نتیجے میں؟ رنج اور غم میں ہے پوری قوم اور غصہ بھی بہت ہے!
Doesn't matter whether you like imran khan and his politics. It is clear that no one else can manage a mobilisation like this. And a govt in panic and with a question mark on its very legitimacy simply cannot compete. And no, locking down half of punjab isn't a masterstroke.
So today's proceedings had about 1.5mn views on PTI's Channel, another 1mn plus on IK's channel, several million when you tally the news channel's channels and the various Youtubers/ journos with their own channels. 7-8% kaafi active hain.
ڈیڑھ سال سے عمران خان پاکستانیوں کی دلوں کی دھڑکن بن چکا ہے۔
اور اس حکومت کی یہ اوقات ہے کہ انہوں نے یہ assure کرایا کہ لائیو سٹریمنگ کے دوران قوم خان کو نہ تو سن سکے نہ دیکھ سکے، لیکن پھر بھی قوم نے اپنے مرشد کا دیدار کر لیا!
Let us revisit the Constitution of Pakistan.
Let us remind that the armed forces are a tool of the state, not the state itself.
Let us reiterate that the real power lies with the people.
Let us remember that the will of the people WILL reign supreme.
#ReleaseImranKhan
#ReleasePoliticalPrisoners
Churchill said another way to spell “perfectionism” is P-A-R-A-L-Y-S-I-S.
It’s good to have high standards but all virtues become vices if taken too far.
The court has approved for SKMT medical team led by Dr Faisal Sultan to attend to both Bushra Bibi and Imran Khan in the presence of PIMS medical team.
Jail supretendant has not only cancelled court proceedings and family visit, he is also refusing to allow doctors to attend to Bushra Bibi and Imran Khan to take blood samples.
Mariam Nawaz has locked down Adiala jail! Since the notification is from Punjab government, she is responsible for Adiala jail and Imran Khan's security.
If she has no authority, she should resign and go home.
We already know, with the stolen mandate she has zero moral authority.
Some of my favorite @naval ideas:
1. If you don't know yet what you should work on, the most important thing is to figure it out.
2. Books make for great friends, because the best thinkers of the last few thousand years tell you their nuggets of wisdom.
3. You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.
4. To make an original contribution, you have to be irrationally obsessed with something.
5. The internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven't figured this out yet.
6. Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
7. Fortunes require leverage.
8. Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgment.
9. Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.
10. Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now. Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.
11. Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.
12. Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
13. If you're not 100 percent into it, somebody else who is 100 percent into it will outperform you. And they won't just outperform you by a little bit—they'll outperform you by a lot because now we’re operating in the domain of ideas, compound interest really applies and leverage really applies.
14. Technology democratizes consumption but consolidates production. The best person in the world at anything gets to do it for everyone.
15. Escape competition through authenticity.
16. If you are fundamentally building and marketing something that is an extension of who you are, no one can compete with you on that.
17. When I talk about specific knowledge, I mean figure out what you were doing as a kid or teenager almost effortlessly. Something you didn't even consider a skill, but people around you noticed. Your mother or your best friend growing up would know.
(My mom told me that when I was a kid and ran out of things to read, I'd read the back of cereal boxes)
18. The more you know, the less you diversify.
19. The best jobs are neither decreed nor degreed. They are creative expressions of continuous learners in free markets.
20. Whenever you can in life, optimize for independence rather than pay.
21. You decide it's important to you. You prioritize it above everything else. You read everything on the topic.
22. The really smart thinkers are clear thinkers. They understand the basics at a very, very fundamental level.
23. The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner.
24. If you're evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path more painful in the short term.
25. What are the most efficient ways to build new mental models? Read a lot—just read.
26. I probably read one to two hours a day. That puts me in the top .00001 percent. I think that alone accounts for any material success I've had in my life and any intelligence I might have.
27. In the intellectual domain, compound interest rules.
28. All the real scorecards are internal.
29. A calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love. These things cannot be bought. They must be earned.
30. Your real résumé is just a catalog of all your suffering. If I ask you to describe your real life to yourself, and you look back from your deathbed at the interesting things you've done, it's all going to be around the sacrifices you made, the hard things you did.
31. What you want in life is to be in control of your time.
32. Being at the extreme in your art is very important in the age of leverage.
33. Enjoy yourself. Do something positive. Project some love. Make someone happy. Laugh a little bit. Appreciate the moment. And do your work.
آج اڈیالہ جیل میں شیردل قیدی نمبر 804 سے ملاقات ہوئی۔ نیل گوں ٹریک سوٹ، ببر شیر والی چال۔ پاکستان کی قوم کا انتہائی شکر گزار جس نے طاقت کو شعور سے تاریخی شکست دی۔ آپ سب کے لئے پیغام دیا "ڈٹے رہنا"۔ شاندار مستقبل تمہارا مقدر ہے۔