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The downfall of society starts with an individual.

#SriLanka's Strong Fiscal Start to 2026: Deficit Nearly Vanished! 🇱🇰 🏛️ Primary Surplus Soars: Almost doubled (+86.7% YoY) to Rs.223 billion in Jan 2026, showcasing robust revenue gains and spending discipline. 🏛️ Budget Deficit Crushed: Plunged 97% YoY to Rs.3.8 billion — near elimination, marking a near-balanced fiscal position. 🏛️ Revenue Surge: Total revenue & grants jumped 35.3% YoY to Rs.469 billion, powered by strong tax collection (+35.1%). 🏛️ Spending in Check: Expenditure growth tightly contained at just 1.4% YoY, enabling fiscal consolidation amid challenges like post-cyclone relief. -DFT

$900 Million in Just 4 Months: Port City Colombo Ignites a New Investment Era 💰 From Nov 2025 to March, #SriLanka’s flagship project has secured $900Mn in investments — a massive surge after years of steady build-up 🏢 Nearly 200 companies already registered 🏢 Over 1M sq ft office space occupied 💵 $15 billion investment pipeline ahead 💵 Projected $13 billion annual GDP boost South Asia’s rising global hub is accelerating fast 🌇🚀 -DFT

Farmer pays $5–$8 per cow per month. A New Zealand company puts a solar-powered smart collar on cows. It tracks location 24/7, health, temperature, chewing activity, breeding. Farmer just opens a simple app and draws a line on the map. That line becomes the fence. As cows approach the boundary, the collar beeps and vibrates. With one tap, the whole herd moves to fresh grass or the milking shed. No physical fences. Less labor. Huge cost savings for farmer. Already on 700k cows across New Zealand, Australia, and the US. and now in talks to raise at a $2B valuation led by Peter Thiel.

How silly of me forgot how far i've come, just because i still have to go far

I can’t stress this enough. GET OUT OF YOUR HOMETOWN. Even if it’s not forever. Move. Travel. See the world. There is more to life than the same 10 people and the same 2 bars.

A bankrupt island nation of 22 million people just taught every great power on Earth a lesson in leverage. Sri Lanka’s President Dissanayake stood before cameras on 6 March and said: “We are neutral but also humanitarian. Sri Lanka is a free and non-aligned nation. We do not favour any country. We treat every human being equally, whether Iranian, American, or Israeli. We jealously guard our non-aligned policy while ensuring that humanitarian values and the saving of lives remain our top priority.” Then he granted free one-month humanitarian visas to all 236 Iranian sailors, the 32 survivors pulled from the wreckage of the IRIS Dena and 204 crew evacuated from the disabled IRIS Bushehr. He described sheltering them as “the most courageous and humanitarian course of action a state can take.” The United States, which sank the Dena using USS Charlotte (SSN-766), a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine firing Mk 48 heavyweight torpedoes 19 to 44 nautical miles off Galle, is pressuring Colombo through a State Department cable to retain the sailors under conditions favourable to American intelligence access. Washington wants the 32 survivors who witnessed classified US submarine engagement tactics. China, which holds Hambantota port under a 99-year lease 90 kilometres from the sinking site, says nothing publicly. The debt speaks for itself. India, which hosted the Dena at its MILAN 2026 exercise weeks before the ship was sunk by India’s closest strategic partner, has not uttered a single word about any of it. Iran is broadcasting the rescue footage across every state media channel. Eighty-seven dead sailors and a neutral nation that refused American demands. And Sri Lanka, sovereign-defaulted in 2022, currently under IMF conditionality, owing billions to Beijing through Belt and Road, dependent on Indian goodwill for regional security, and sitting at the intersection of every great-power pressure line in the Indian Ocean, chose international law. UNCLOS Article 98 required the rescue. Geneva Convention II Article 17 required the internment. Hague Convention XIII prohibited allowing the sailors to re-enter combat. Sri Lanka followed every obligation to the letter. Uruguay did the same during the Falklands. Switzerland did the same throughout World War II. The law is unambiguous. The politics are not. This is the same Sri Lanka that founded the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961. That hosted the fifth NAM summit in 1976. That proposed the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace in 1971 and got the UN to adopt it. And that is now pursuing BRICS partner status under India’s 2026 chairmanship, with Prime Minister Amarasuriya calling membership “strategically appealing” on 6 March, the same week her government was sheltering Iranian sailors against American objections. Every major power assumed Sri Lanka would fold. Washington assumed economic leverage would force compliance. Beijing assumed debt would ensure silence. Delhi assumed proximity would guarantee deference. Tehran assumed sympathy would guarantee solidarity. Instead, Colombo followed the law, issued the visas, sheltered the sailors, and told every great power exactly the same thing: we are neutral, we are humanitarian, and we do not take sides. The weakest economy in the Indian Ocean just demonstrated the strongest foreign policy. Full analysis for paid subscribers. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

the whole cheat code of life is self-belief

All your problems are your own fault. Lack of discipline. No confidence. No courage. No responsibility. Bad decisions. Stop complaining and change now.

BREAKING: Tomorrow is Warren Buffett's last day as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett took the stock from $19/share in 1965 to $750,000/share today, up +3,950,000%. Congratulations to the best investor of all time.

#SriLanka's budget deficit down 73.25% YoY to Rs.326 billion in Jan-Nov 2025 from Rs.1.2 trillion Records a primary surplus of Rs.1.9 trillion for the 11-month period, up 109% from Rs.928 billion a year ago -DFT 🇱🇰📈

today, we’re open sourcing the largest egocentric dataset in history. - 10,000 hours - 2,153 factory workers - 1,080,000,000 frames the era of data scaling in robotics is here. (thread)

"If Powell doesn't cut rates my owner is fucked"

CBSL Governor hails rare fiscal discipline 🏛️ Says Govt revenue to surpass 15.3% of GDP target & primary surplus more than 2.3% 🏛️ #SriLanka's 1st fiscal outperformance in decades, improving debt dynamics 🏛️Credit growth reflects a steady, not overheated, economic rebound -DFT

Engineering is the highest form of art.

#SriLanka's economy (GDP) grew by 4.9% in the second quarter of 2025 compared to 4.7% recorded in the second quarter of 2024 and 4.8% growth recorded in the first quarter of 2025 -DCS 🇱🇰📈

this feels like practice for whatever future hardware comes next

Goosebumps! Sri Lanka’s 🇱🇰 anthem on the top of the podium as Yevan David wins 🏆 Race 2 of EuroFormula Open 2025 (Round 6) at the Red Bull Ring. Proud moment for the nation🇱🇰💪! #Motorsport #SriLanka #EuroFormulaOpen #LKA

@zapumal @Accenture Congratulations Dr.Sapumal 🎉

Head to head in fintech! Proud to share that #Xeptagon has been selected for the @Accenture FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific 2025.

Still think about this amazing video from the dotcom era