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A MIT professor gave a 1-hour lecture in 2019 that has 18 million views.
He died 5 months after recording it.
It was his final gift to the world.
Patrick Winston taught at MIT for 50 years.
The smartest engineers on earth sat in his classroom.
And he spent his last lecture teaching them the one skill their degrees never covered.
How to speak.
15 lessons that will change how you communicate forever:
Never open with a joke. Your audience is not ready to laugh yet. Open with a promise of what they will know by the end.
Your ideas are like your children. You are too close to them. What is obvious to you is invisible to everyone else. Explain the obvious.
The 5-minute rule: the first 5 minutes of any talk determine whether people will listen for the next 55. Spend more time on your opening than anything else.
Repeat your most important idea 3 times in 3 different ways. Once is never enough.
Build a fence around your idea. Tell people what it is NOT before you tell them what it IS.
Verbal punctuation. Pause. Let the idea land before moving to the next one.
Ask questions nobody will answer. Then wait 7 seconds. The silence is not awkward. It is processing.
Never read your slides. Your audience can read. They cannot listen and read simultaneously.
Use the board not the slides. Writing forces you to slow down. Slowing down forces clarity.
Inspire before you inform. Nobody learns from someone they are not inspired by.
End with a contribution not a summary. Tell them what you gave them. Not what you said.
Never say thank you at the end. It is weak. End with something that lands.
Stories make ideas stick. Data makes ideas understood. You need both. In that order.
The quality of your communication determines the quality of your ideas in the eyes of the world. Not the ideas themselves.
Practice is not preparation. Practice IS the skill.
Patrick Winston understood something most people spend their entire careers missing.
Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to transfer them into someone else's mind.
You can be the smartest person in the room and be completely invisible.
Or you can master communication and make average ideas feel like breakthroughs.
He chose to spend his last lecture teaching this.
Watch it tonight.
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Majority of the things you spend money on, you actually don’t need to spend that much money on it.
You can save money if you make wiser decisions and smarter choices.
We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to please people who don’t care.
Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2-hour Stanford lecture on AI careers. It will teach you more about winning in the AI race than all the AI content you’ve scrolled past this year.
Pewbeam is live 🎉
This was just a dream, a dream I didn’t even know was possible—but I decided to pursue it anyway. Today, that dream is now a reality. We have a desktop app (Windows and macOS—this weekend) that can do all of this and even more. Over the last six months, I’ve pushed myself and my team hard, and I’ve seen people become hopeful and genuinely blessed by this product. I’ve received strong support from pastors, church members, techies, and several media houses and reporters. It has been a great honor to spend myself on something worthwhile.
We’ve built an AI-native presentation app that displays relevant scriptures on screen in under 80 ms, without needing a volunteer. We’re starting with scriptures, but we’re growing into a comprehensive presentation software, with slides launching next month.
From testing @pewbeam_ai in churches over the last four weeks, pastors have been able to focus on what matters instead of juggling or micromanaging the media team while preaching. Church members have been able to follow their pastor’s references in real time and take better notes. In the words of a member from one of the test churches: “Pewbeam changed the way I follow sermons in church completely.” This is the kind of impact I see Pewbeam having on people’s faith and on how church and worship are done.
Pewbeam’s mission is to ensure the Church is not left behind in the AI era. We’re starting with this application, with many more to come in the next few months. We’ll keep working with stakeholders in the Christian faith, collect feedback, and build tools that better support discipleship. And unlike previous waves of technology, I believe we can be among the first movers in this AI revolution.
With all that said, the final build of the app is ready, and we’re launching for public download on February 25, 2026. The app has a generous free tier for small churches and fellowships, and a paid plan (location-based pricing) that unlocks unlimited access to all features.
If you’ve been following this journey, I appreciate you, and I assure you it will be worth it.
Please download, subscribe, and use in your church.
🚨The tax law is not ambiguous about who is taxable. It contradicts itself and makes a palpable error in its assumption that individuals earning the national minimum wage will be exempted.🚫
Here are the facts!
Q: When does your annual gross income become taxable?
Ans: When it exceeds ₦800,000 (~USD$550 ), meaning anything you earn above ₦800,000 (~USD$550) will be taxed.
Q: What is the National minimum wage?
Ans: ₦70,000(~USD47.95). Now do the maths.
🚨The analysis below proves that sections of the Tax law offer zero savings and zero deductibles for low income earners, and will ensure that millions of Nigerians remain in Poverty.🚨
Let us test the assumption above, using the minimum wage as a reference.
- According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), 139,000,000 Nigerians earn below Nigeria's poverty line which is ₦137,430(~USD$95) per year, or ₦376.50(~USD$0.29) per day.
Note: The World Bank considers people earning below USD$2.15 per/day as living in Extreme Poverty, while those earning below USD$3.65 per/day are considered low income earners by international standard.
- According to Numbeo (A global tracker on the cost of living & quality of life), the estimated cost of living per person in Lagos for a month, is about ₦343,092 (~USD$235). Other peer reviewed journals place that number between ₦120,000(~USD$83) to ₦400,000(~USD$275) depending on the Nigerian city of residence, and whether the individual lives in a rural or urban area.
Now let's see what the national minimum wage can afford the average Nigerian, using some common household indices and Government data.
Feeding/Food Consumption.
- According to "The Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics(NBS)", the estimated "Cost of a Healthy Diet (CoHD)", in Nigeria per day is ₦1,611 (USD$1.11) per adult.
Now let's test the (CoHD estimate) with actual figures, using low income earners as a basis.
₦800 - Cost of 1 Hungry Man sized noodles.
₦200 - Cost of 1 egg.
₦50 - Cost of 1 sachet of pure water.
₦100 - Cost of 1 small bulb of onion.
Total - ₦1150(~USD$0.79) for 1 unhealthy plate of noodles.
As we can see, the Government's (CoHD) estimate of ₦1,611(~USD$1.11) is not enough for 2 square meals in a day, but we will use it for the sake of this analysis.
So based on the Government's estimate (NBS) for CoHD, it will cost an Adult ₦49,940(~USD$34) to eat 2 square meals per day for a month. (e resemble magic abi?)
Transportation.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics(NBS), It costs low income Nigerians an average of ₦535 to ₦731 for a round trip using an Okada or Keke Napep.
Assuming the low income earner lives in a rural area, and only goes to work and back. No visits to the market, place of worship, friends etc, his monthly budget for transportation would be between ₦16,585( ~USD11.36) to ₦22,661(~USD15.52).
Note: The NBS also gives the following round trip estimates for :-
- Bus fares - ₦1060
- Water Ways - ₦1478.
Electricity
For a low income earner that uses only low energy bulbs, a socket to charge phones and a standing fan, his monthly budget for power is ₦10000(~USD$6.9).
Note - No refrigerator, No Television, Water Heater, Electric Iron, Air Conditioner, Electric Blender, Electric Stove, Electric Kettle, etc...(literally living in the Stone age).
So based on the household indices for low income earners listed above, here's the estimated total cost of living per month for low income earners in Nigeria.
₦49,940 + ₦16,585 + ₦10,000 = ₦76,525(~USD$52.62)
🚨₦918,300 PER YEAR
🚨AS WE CAN SEE, THE TOTAL EXCEEDS THE NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE WITHOUT DEDUCTIBLES.🚨
🚨Oh wait...I did not add the cost of gas, the cost of water, toiletries, miscellaneous, etc.🚨
🚨I also forgot RENT which increases the total cost of living presented above.
⚠️In conclusion, this is proof that this tax law, takes from the poor, re-enforces poverty & fiscal slavery and destroys the purchasing power of Millions of Nigerians🚫
TODAY IS FINEST WORSHIP!
The sound is rising, the stage is set, and WE ARE READYYYYY! 🔥🔥
Come expecting glory.
Come expecting encounters.
Come expecting a supernatural move that will shake the room tonight. 🤍✨
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