BREAKING: Saudi Aramco has cancelled all of its September European crude oil allocations and is scrapping every cargo slated for late-September loading onward, with a European lifter saying no Saudi oil cargoes at all until November, per initial reports citing oil trading firm Onyx and market sources.
That takes the world's largest exporter out of the European market for the rest of September and all of October, a de facto force majeure on Saudi crude to Europe from the 3rd largest energy producer in the world.
When Naqvi's tenure finishes next year, the next ACC president will organize a grand ceremony and hand over both the trophies to BCCI.
But Naqvi is making sure no Pakistani will now get even a small post at either ACC or ICC in the foreseeable future. He is doing permanent damage to PCB externally, just like he is doing permanent damage to them internally. Aur tumhare jaise nithalle saale taaliyan baja rahe hain.
I spent 30 years in academia. Here are my observations about my students. Toward the end, I was teaching “Gen Z." These students combined ignorance with strident moral certainty. They seemed to have had no general education at all, and lacked the most basic knowledge of history, even recent history. They were immature and emotionally fragile.
Many could not handle criticism, no matter how sugar coated. It took very little to reduce them to tears – or to send them into a fit of narcissistic rage. They were shockingly bereft of intellectual curiosity, and many gave the impression of having no internal life at all.
I'll share more observations later.
Die Probleme der deutschen Autoindustrie haben auch mit der Mentalität der Manager zu tun. Zwei Aspekte:
1. Gründer grosser Unternehmer waren in DE oft Naturwissenschaftler und Techniker (Bayer, Siemens, Bosch, Benz, Linde, Zeiss, usw.). Heute haben Topmanager oft einen Hintergrund in Controlling und Marketing. Produktentwicklung wird als Kostenfaktor gesehen und nicht als Kern des Unternehmens, die Zielfokussierung orientiert sich an Quartalszahlen statt Langfristzielen. Auf Dauer sind technisch denkende Unternehmensleiter wie Elon Musk (Tesla / SpaceX), Wang Chuanfu (BYD), Li Shufu (Geely / Volvo), Lei Jun (Xiaomi), etc. überlegen.
2. Karriere wird in deutschen Konzernen durch Powerpoint-Präsentationen in Management-Meetings gemacht. Kompetente Techniker, Naturwissenschaftler, Ingenieure usw. tun sich in diesem Umfeld oft schwer in Konkurrenz zu Marketingleuten und schlichten Blendern. In Unternehmen wie Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX und den chinesischen Autoherstellern gibt es teils eine Anti-Powerpoint-Kultur. Bei Amazon gibt es z.B. die berühmte Memo-Methode, welche von Meetingteilnehmern mehr sachorientierte Kompetenz erfordert statt oberflächliches PPT-Blendwerk.
> Be Gloria Steinem.
> Move to India in 1957 on a fellowship to 'find yourself.'
> Spend two years studying the social fabric of a young, sovereign nation.
> Get picked up by the Agency.
> Run the 'Independent Research Service' - a literal CIA front to disrupt Soviet youth festivals in Vienna and Helsinki.
> Publicly praise CIA agents as 'liberal and farsighted' while 'collaborating' with them.
> Launch 'Ms. Magazine' and become the face of Second-Wave Feminism.
> Mission - Re-engineer the social fabric of the West to weaken the family unit and double the tax base.
> Success - Radical individualist feminism becomes a geopolitical tool for Western soft power.
> Be hailed as a 'revolutionary' by the masses while being a state-sponsored asset in declassified files.
> History remembers the icon; the files remember the collaborator.
P.S. I don't feel a thing when a CIA asset sold as a feminist icon dies. She infiltrated, co-opted and misdirected the feminist movement in the United States and globally.
WORLD SHOCKED: After Top Feminist Gloria Steinem Died, It Was Revealed She Was A CIA Operative Who Worked For The Rockefeller Foundation & Paul Ehrlich To Implement A Plan To Destroy The Nuclear Family As Part Of A Larger Depopulation Program To Collapse Civilization!
In This Must-Watch/Share Report, Alex Jones Exposes The Truth That The Death Cult Is Desperate To Conceal!
AI transformation contracts landed in just the past year:
- TCS: Porsche ($1.5B), SKF ($800M), Tryg ($640M)
- Wipro: Olam ($1B), Phoenix ($650M)
- Infosys: NHS ($1.6B)
- HCL: EU50 ($1.2B)
$7.5B of AI contracts while AI is "killing" IT
Narrative violation
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Italian traveler Manucci, writing about 17th-century Mughal India, states:
“Indians call all white Europeans and Moslims in India by the name farangis (= Mlecchas), a designation so disgraceful in their tongue that nothing in ours could reproduce it.
They hold them to be vile, abominable, and very dirty, with no polite manners. For these reasons, they would sooner die unaided than drink a cup of water from the hand of a Mleccha.”
I realized too late in my career that we all need to learn sales, irrespective of our profession or vocation.
In 2019, after more than a decade of what would be normally called a successful career track (pedigree, logos, scale, $$$), I went back to the drawing board and started self-training myself in sales (& marketing too) from scratch.
I can vouch that every point in this top @hackernews post on “How to do sales?” is true, and amazingly distilled to its simplest essence.
So much so that I have printed it out, kept it on my desk, to be reviewed each day.
Btw, it’s a real travesty that top universities and early-career jobs hardly provide any practical sales skills or training to young talent. I have seen this both in the US and India, and it’s a major gap in our learning systems.
😊 I also just uploaded a new version of the lecture notes. https://t.co/bpIvdgG8KO (it's still, and perhaps will always be work-in-progress, given the field is moving fast. Any mistakes are mine :) and any feedback is more than welcome :).
This is the best 2 hours on graph engineering ever recorded, Andrew Ng breaking down how to build agentic knowledge graphs from scratch:
9:14 - your first working agent
33:11 - how loops actually work
1:02:46 - turning loops into working graphs
1:30:15 - agents that improve their own code
1:49:05 - a system that runs the whole thing for you
I've seen $500 courses that teach less than this video alone.
Watch it, then take it further with my step-by-step guide on graph engineering below.
Due to lack of jobs & opportunities in the state, Goan youth migrating to different states and also abroad.
With @ArvindKejriwal's promise of 80% reservation in pvt jobs, these youth won't have to leave their home state for employment.
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Fake Maggi
Fake Thumbs Up
Fake Bournvita
Fake Paperboat
We are eating fake food despite paying full price.
Hospitals are full of cancer patients for this very reason.