Jaydev Patil

semi-geek. clearly confused soul.

[Jaydev Patil @JaydevPatil]

@AnilSinghvi_ @ZeeBusiness please cut down the screen time of Mr. Bansal , utter waste of time

[Jaydev Patil @JaydevPatil]

No matter which salon I go to, the barber somehow becomes -

Dermatologist
Nutritionist
Hair scientist

All before the haircut even starts.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A MIT professor taught the same lecture every January for 40 years, and every single time it was standing room only.

I watched it at 2am and it completely rewired how I think about communication.

His name was Patrick Winston. The lecture is called "How to Speak."

His opening line hit like a truck: your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas in that order.

Not your GPA. Not your pedigree. Not your IQ. How you speak is what separates people who get heard from people who get ignored.

Here's the framework he drilled into MIT students for four decades.

He said never start with a joke. Start by telling people exactly what they're going to learn. Prime the pump before you pour anything in. He called it the "empowerment promise" give people a reason to stay in their seats within the first 60 seconds.

Then he broke down the 5S rule for making ideas stick: Symbol, Slogan, Surprise, Salient, and Story. Every idea worth remembering hits at least three of these.

The part that floored me was his "near miss" technique. Don't just show what's right show what almost looks right but isn't. That contrast is when the brain actually locks something in permanently.

His final rule before any big talk: end with a contribution, not a summary. Don't recap what you said. Tell people what you gave them that they didn't have before they walked in.

I've used this framework in pitches, interviews, and presentations ever since watching it, and the results are not subtle.

Patrick Winston passed away in 2019, but this lecture is still free on MIT OpenCourseWare. One hour, watched by millions, and it costs absolutely nothing.

The most important class MIT ever put on the internet isn't about code or math. It's about how to make people actually listen to you.

[Natalie Wolchover @nattyover]

Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant. After 50 yrs, scientists have finally figured out how it works. “My lifelong quest is now fulfilled.” Link⤵️

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

First Lata Mangeshkar. Now Asha Bhosle. Different styles, both touched by greatness. So many great songs, for me Umrao Jaan was the cherry on the top. The last survivor of the great era of Rafi, Kishore, Mukesh, Manna Dey, Talat, Geeta Dutt, Lata and Asha is gone and while we use the expression loosely, it is really the end of an era.

[Jaydev Patil @JaydevPatil]

@OpenAIDevs How frequently submissions are reviewed?

[Jaydev Patil @JaydevPatil]

@taoburr submitted 3 of them

[Jaydev Patil @JaydevPatil]

@soupsranjan Have a look at the portal now. It's the best approach with free data available. Airlines don't have free API, I have added aggregator links using which can be used to book flights

[Jaydev Patil @JaydevPatil]

@Ravi_Riskmgmt NTPC chart is a work of art

[Jaydev Patil @JaydevPatil]

The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. #XAUUSD

[Jaydev Patil @JaydevPatil]

The most crowded place at 8 am in the morning in Delhi is not some best selling breakfast outlet but US Embassy!

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

What if biological language involves a system that’s something like an LLM? Long before the rise of ChatGPT, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko (@ev_fedorenko) was studying a network in the brain that maps words to their meanings. @johnpavlus reports: https://t.co/nD1buMGGpF

[Jaydev Patil @JaydevPatil]

Kolkata is still so Calcutta. #StuckInTime

[Jaydev Patil @JaydevPatil]

@patrickc That time of year! very creative.

[Jaydev Patil @JaydevPatil]

@AnkitPrjpti This has got to be from film scene!

[Fundoo Professor @Sanjay__Bakshi]

If you think back to the fiber-optic bubble of 2000, the warning signs were obvious. When the capex spending started to outstrip the desire of investors to fund it, the vendors started to act in irrational ways in order to hit Wall Street targets. Lucent and Nortel started lending their customers money to buy networking equipment, they took equity stakes in their customers, so that they could purchase more equipment, and they even bought capacity on their customers’ fiber-optic networks so that their customers could show revenue growth, and hit Wall Street targets. All of this was done in the hope that their customers could raise more capital to keep buying networking equipment. As you can imagine, when you’re the vendor, the customer and the investor in a company, there’s a strong incentive to artificially inflate the numbers by signing preferable contracts that use very large numbers, and then round-trip the capital. With extreme pressure to hit targets, especially as the funding cut off, it should be no surprise that this led to endemic fraud at both Lucent and Nortel, ultimately leading to their collapse.

https://t.co/4rJpg0WaT9

[Honza Černý @honzacern1]

Thread: Silver "Paper Tsunami" 🌊 #SilverSqueeze

1/ Today’s COMEX silver action looked insane.
Volume hit 63,800 contracts. Each contract = 5,000 oz.
➡️ That’s 319 million ounces of paper silver traded in ONE day. 🤯

[Jaydev Patil @JaydevPatil]

Scientists develop brain implant capable of decoding inner speech https://t.co/V1oqY46Z1p