He didn’t raise his voice.
He just said three words and an entire crew folded.
“Say my name.”
“You’re Heisenberg.”
“You’re goddamn right.”
Coldest power move in TV history or the exact second a good man became the villain?
Born in 1952, James Tarjan became the @USChess Champion in 1978. After retiring from competitive chess, he made a comeback in 2014 and even made headlines when he defeated Vladimir Kramnik at the Isle of Man Open in 2017. The rating difference between them was almost 400 points!
James is one of the participants in the U.S. Open, which concludes tomorrow in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 1-hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.
A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
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That gold watch monologue in Pulp Fiction (1994) feels like it was made for Christopher Walken. Tarantino gives him one long, bizarre speech, and Walken’s strange, deadpan rhythm turns it into one of the most unforgettable scenes in the whole film.