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Straits of Hormuz are named after Ahura Mazda from Zoroastrianism

“There is a particular grief in watching the world applaud the resilience of a people while failing to fully reckon with the conditions that made that resilience necessary.” 👏👏 This post brought me to tears. I'm not a woman, but as the son of a single mother who had to fight tooth and nail (fights no human being has any right to engage in, mind you) so she could keep her children and keep them alive, my respect for Iranian women started at home, and it's something I'll carry until my last day.

🕊️ 💔Marjane Satrapi is one of the most influential Iranian artists of our time. The author of Persepolis, filmmaker, illustrator, and storyteller, she helped millions understand Iran through the lives of its people rather than through the lens of politics. Her work captured the humor, complexity, resilience, and heartbreak of being Iranian in the aftermath of revolution and exile. As an Iranian-American, I’ve always felt conflicted by the way parts of the Western creative, academic, and political worlds engage with Iran. They celebrate our poetry, films, artists, resilience, and resistance. They admire the beauty that emerged from suffering. But too few stop to ask why so many of those artists, writers, thinkers, entrepreneurs, and dreamers were forced to create from exile in the first place. Millions of Iranians did not dream of becoming a diaspora. We dreamed of staying home. 💔 We dreamed of building companies in Tehran, making films in Shiraz, creating art in Isfahan, raising our families, caring for our parents, and contributing to the country we loved. Instead, generations of Iranians were forced to choose between freedom and home. The world celebrates the extraordinary achievements of Iranians abroad—and it should. But those achievements are also evidence of a profound loss. They are reminders of what Iran itself was denied. When Marjane Satrapi speaks about sadness, I understand. There is a particular grief in watching the world applaud the resilience of a people while failing to fully reckon with the conditions that made that resilience necessary. The tragedy is not that Iranians succeeded despite everything. The tragedy is how much more they could have contributed had they been free to flourish in their own country. Imagine Marjane Satrapi’s talent, brilliance, and voice in a free Iran. Then imagine the millions more like her. That is the loss and my dream of a Free Iran. #MarjaneSatrapi #Persepolis #Iran #womanlifefreedom

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Before the shutdowns, over 10 million Iranians relied on the internet for work. Now, the entire country is trying to reach the uncensored internet and resume normal life. We're moving as fast we possibly can to help you make that happen. We are with you.

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This “Crab Mentality” is the most vivid explainer is what the Iranian people are dealing with. The crabs pulling them down are the Iranian diaspora, self interested politicians, greedy business people, reformist and regime apologists and ideologues.

Does it really matter if #Khamenei son is alive? No it doesn’t. The elimination of key figures dilutes the system but doesn’t destroy it. Since the Iran-Iraq war and the rise of IRGC, Tehran has operated on two prongs: Islamism and militarism. And both are “overseen” by Mahdism; the belief that the last Imam Mahdi will return to save the believers, ie regime operators. Iran will be a menace as long as it’s a theocratic state.

CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI. So when they play with AI, they see the happy path results, often not considering the next 10 or 20 things that have to happen to get sustainable results from agents. “Look I made this awesome product prototype”. Yes but you didn’t have to review the code before it went into production and fix a bunch of issues. “Look I generated a contract”. Yes but you didn’t verify all the terms before it goes out to the counterparty and didn’t have to wire up all the past contracts to work with. The best thing you can do as a CEO is to use AI a *ton* to figure out the real implications of agents in the enterprise, and come out the other side with an appreciation for both the upside and the real work that goes into them.

There will only be two types of business owners in the next 5 years: 1) The tech-enabled operator: uses AI to scale with fewer people and lower costs than ever. 2) The premium artisan: goes all in on human touch and commands higher prices because of it. Everyone sitting in the middle dies.

The biggest betrayal of the century was making deals with the Islamic Republic over the heads of 92 million Iranian people — a nation governed by the most extreme 5–10% of the population. The entire region hates the IRGC — whether it’s the Gulf states or frankly anyone with a functioning brain who understands what this regime has done to the Middle East. And yet somehow this ideology continues to be propped up by Americans who want to lecture the world about why the Islamic Republic has a “right to defend itself.” I’m not sure I will ever stop being offended by that. Iranian people really have no one. On one side: leftists, anti-American, anti-West, anti-war regime apologists and reformists who call it “resistance” and “anti-imperialism” — unless it’s the IRGC, who can do whatever they want to whoever they want. On the other side: MAGA maximalists — thin-skinned, ego-driven, lacking guts and follow-through, lining their pockets, terrible at strategy, sloppy, messy, arrogant, and overleveraged. A complete lack of conviction. They ruined their own credibility over domestic issues that were never aligned with everyday Americans. The absolute worst thing that ever happened to Iranians was the introduction of Marxist, anti-American ideology that invited Michel Foucault, Edward Said, and Yasser Arafat into the psyche of the Iranian people — elevating Khomeinism and paving the way for the rise of the Islamic Republic. For the record the ideology I find the most offensive is the soft core reformist peddling human rights. I see you 👀

Incredible. $1.87 in USDC paid by an agentic analyst to build a world class investment committee memo on SpaceX IPO. The agentic economy has arrived.

Every time Anthropic ships something new I get more bullish on owning: The laundromat. The car repair shop. The HVAC company. The porta-potty business. AI can't fix a roof or unclog the drain, but it can run everything around it.

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Every hurdle AI removes, another real business gets born. We're heading toward a world where more people can self-actualize, not fewer. Listen to this one.

If you love Iranian people your feed would focus on this 2,159 executed in 2025 — highest since 1981 30,000 killed in the January protests 6,500 arrests since the war began 612 executed since January 2026 (5/day) 80 days without internet 177/180 on the global press freedom index Not on your distain of the West, @POTUS or @PahlaviReza My love for Iran has no party lines 🦁 #FreeIran‌