Anthony Ashburton

When your working life rewards you, it’s easy to ratchet up the complexity: homes, cars, travel, possessions etc. I have found that all that complexity comes at the sake of your most fleeting asset: your time. Instead of building things, all of a sudden you’re dealing with minutiae and logistics. Instead of talking mostly to engineers, you’re talking mostly to non-engineers. The building stops…the business of managing self inflicted complexity begins. It’s worth noting that the best players in the game (Buffett, Elon) have kept their life extremely basic, almost monastic/nomadic, as success ratcheted them ever higher. I think it’s the biggest secret hiding in plain sight: When the world upgrades your status, downgrade your complexity.

Rest easy Admiral. You had a fantastic run. #ForAllMankind

@forallmankind_ That was one of the best episodes of what has been one of the best television series of all time. Some tears were shed,too.🥹

A new episode of #ForAllMankind is now streaming.

@rgoodlaw A thoroughly despicable excuse of a man.

Hegseth purge of Black and women officers larger than previously reported "Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for MORE THAN A DOZEN Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military." nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

@ZelenskyyUa Don't overpromise Volodymyr. You need to understand that neither MBS or Al-Zayed will stick their necks out for you with Putin.Ensure Ukraine is getting as good a deal as you're offering.Trump has made it clear to all nations that their unalloyed self-interest should come first.

Our signal to the United States and countries in the Middle East about the Strait of Hormuz was that we were open to discussing it. As of today, I don't see any country lifting the blockade on its own, only joint steps can bring results. Ukraine has experience with launching the Grain Corridor in the Black Sea despite Russia’s attempts to block the flow of food and other goods. The situation now is similar, but it is about energy. Our suggestion – based on our experience – was as follows. The war and the negotiations on reopening the Hormuz Strait can go in parallel. It’s worth trying to find a diplomatic solution, and this could be beneficial for both sides in the war. An alternative step would be to control the Strait unilaterally, as Ukraine did with the Grain Corridor. Achieving this would require interceptors, military convoys to escort the vessels, a large integrated electronic warfare network, and other tools. We stand ready to help with this. But for now, we are not yet involved. So far, no one has made such a request. We are simply sharing our knowledge. If one day our partners want to make use of it, we would be ready. From an interview with NewsNation.

@Rufyb So buy?

Let me burst your brain. They are just starting. Go to their balance sheet. Go to their cash flow statement, and you will see it. In FY 2025, Capex jumped from ₦7.7bn to ₦40.5bn... roughly 5x the previous year's capex. If you don't get the it, for context, the cumulative capex from 2019 to 2024 was about ₦40.5bn in total. So the company essentially spent in one year what it had spent in the previous six years combined. This almost certainly points to a major capacity expansion. Beta Glass has historically operated at or near full capacity, and demand for glass containers in Nigeria has been growing alongside the beverage and food processing industries. The company likely reached a point where it could not meet demand with existing capacity, so it is building a new furnace or production line. This has implications for future prospects. In the near term, free cash flow will be under pressure. However, once the new capacity comes online, the coy should see a meaningful revenue growth (like +₦70bn incremental revenue or another +50% revenue growth). Given that Beta Glass operates in a market with no domestic competition, incremental capacity is absorbed relatively easily. Operating leverage should kick in, because fixed cost base gets spread across a larger revenue base and boom!!!, higher profits. There is execution risk of course (delays, cost overruns, FX volatility on imported equipment, and energy costs). The energy costs part is already obvious, but the overall macro situation makes execution risk less worrisome.

@F1 @aramco ⚡

Nico Hulkenberg hit the top speed around Suzuka! ⏱️ The Audi driver is this weekend's @Aramco Speed Master 🏎️💨 Check out the full leaderboard 👉 f1.com/aramco-speed-m… #F1 #JapaneseGP

@BJWhittingham @VisionaryVoid 🤣

@VisionaryVoid This weather pattern persists to the present day in England.

The Two-Million-Year Rainstorm That Transformed Earth. Approximately 234 to 232 million years ago, during the late Triassic period, Earth experienced an unprecedented climatic event. For an astonishing two million years, the planet was subjected to nearly continuous, non-stop rainfall, profoundly reshaping its geology and biology. This geological phenomenon, known as the Carnian Pluvial Event, dramatically altered the global landscape. Scientists believe it was triggered by massive volcanic eruptions that released vast quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, leading to extreme global warming and intense monsoons. The persistent downpours led to widespread flooding, creating vast new inland seas and lakes. The continuous rainfall weathered down mountains and transported immense amounts of sediment across continents, fundamentally changing the Earth's surface. Despite the relentless deluge, this period of extreme wetness also spurred a significant evolutionary shift. The new, wetter environments facilitated the rapid diversification of plant life and led to the rise of dinosaurs, which thrived in the changed ecosystems. The Carnian Pluvial Event demonstrates Earth's profound geological and biological resilience, highlighting how even prolonged extreme weather can drive massive planetary transformations over deep time.

@SkySportsF1 Not Verstappen...🤭

Who will be leading into Turn One in Japan? 🇯🇵👀

@ProjBigScreen @kirkmin @JeffDLowe @bobgoochman @JackKennedy @ChrisKlemmer 2001: A Space Odyssey is the GOAT then Interstellar comes a close second in my book.

What’s the BEST space movie of all time? We debate our Top 10 in honor of PROJECT HAIL MARY taking the world by storm… Did we miss anything?

@MoSalah It was a joy watching you all these years,Mo.Wish you all the very best for the future.

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

Tales of Manchester City's demise have been greatly exaggerated. #CarabaoCup

@KemiBadenoch Maybe you're living under the proverbial rock, but Nigeria has the largest single train refinery in the world whose daily production equals that of your Fawley and Stanlow refineries combined.Reform is ongoing to overhaul the petroleum sector as we speak. Read a little more.

What Labour is doing is reminiscent of the terrible energy policies I saw growing up in Nigeria. ❌Stupid taxes 🧾Endless bureaucracy and government interference 🏭❌ No refining capability ⛽⚠️...and now Labour are warning about rationing and fuel shortages. The UK can do better than Labour's energy insanity. The @Conservatives Cheap Power Plan explains how we can do this. It’s time to drill in the North Sea and scrap green taxes that are killing investment and driving up bills.

@jgreyfriend I just learned that those are tuning forks on the Yamaha logo!

• be Torakusu Yamaha • the son of a low-ranking samurai astronomer in 19th-century Japan • obsessed with Western machines, you make a living repairing watches and medical equipment • 1887: a local elementary school has a broken American reed organ. Nobody in the small town knows how to fix it. • you take it apart, realize it’s just two broken springs, and easily repair it • but instead of just handing it back, you realize: "If I can fix this, I can build it." • you draw a blueprint of the inside of the organ and build the very first Japanese-made reed organ from scratch • you show it off. People tell you it sounds terrible. • most people would quit. You sling the heavy wooden organ over your shoulder on a bamboo carrying pole. • you physically carry it 160 miles (250 km) on foot, trekking over the brutal Hakone mountains just to reach the Tokyo Music Institute to get real feedback from experts • the professors play it. They tell you the mechanics are brilliant, but the tuning is completely wrong. • you don't get defensive. You stay in Tokyo for a month, sitting in on university music theory lectures, holding a single tuning fork to your ear until you completely master the mathematics of sound frequencies • you walk 160 miles back home • you build a second organ. The professors test it and declare it "as good as those from abroad." • you found Nippon Gakki Co. (which later becomes Yamaha Corporation) • you decide to make your company logo three interlocking tuning forks to remember the pain and discipline of learning music theory from scratch • decades later, your company uses its piano woodworking expertise to build wooden airplane propellers in WWII • after the war, the company uses its new metallurgical expertise from the airplane engines to build motorcycles • you accidentally create a timeline where repairing a broken elementary school organ directly leads to the creation of the Yamaha YZF-R1 superbike • absolute, relentless horizontal integration based purely on figuring out how things work The ultimate testament to reverse-engineering reality.

@sentdefender It's the dementia again 🫣

During his interview Saturday with NBC News about the Iran War, President Trump suddenly attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has sent counter drone systems and experts to the Middle East to assist combating the threat of Iranian one-way attack drones, saying “I’m surprised that Zelensky doesn’t want to make a deal. Tell Zelensky to make a deal because Putin’s willing to make a deal.” Trump added that Zelensky was “far more difficult to make a deal with” than Russian President Vladimir Putin over efforts to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

@Motor_Sport Red Bull have had their fun.

Max Verstappen has suffered the worst first two grand prix qualifying results in a year of his ENTIRE F1 career - including his Toro Rosso days! ❌🤯 The four-time world champion was P20 in Australian Grand Prix qualifying after a crash in his Red Bull RB22, followed by P8 in China.

@F1 ⚡

KIMI ANTONELLI IS ON POLE IN CHINA! 👏💨 It's his first Grand Prix Pole Position in F1! 😮‍💨 #F1 #ChineseGP

@MarkJCarney It's been a tumultuous year Mark,but Canadians trust you to be a steady,reliable captain of the ship.

One year ago today, Canada’s new government took office with a strong mandate for change.   We’re working with focus and ambition to build new trade partnerships, bring down your costs, and transform our economy — and we’re just getting started. 🇨🇦

@TheAfricaReport Et tu,Accra? 😮‍💨

The death of a 29-year-old engineer in the back of an ambulance after being turned away by three of Accra’s biggest hospitals has reignited anger over Ghana’s ‘no-bed syndrome’,