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:
1. Never open with a joke. Your audience is not ready to laugh yet. Open with a promise of what they'll know by the end.
2. Your ideas are like your children. You're too close to them. What's obvious to you is invisible to everyone else. Explain the obvious.
3. The 5-minute rule. The first 5 minutes of any talk decide whether people listen for the next 55. Spend more time on your opening than anything else.
4. Repeat your most important idea 3 times in 3 different ways. Once is never enough.
5. Build a fence around your idea. Tell people what it is NOT before you tell them what it IS.
6. Verbal punctuation. Pause. Let the idea land before moving to the next one.
7. Ask questions nobody will answer. Then wait 7 seconds. The silence isn't awkward. It's processing.
8. Never read your slides. Your audience can read. They can't listen and read simultaneously.
9. Use the board not the slides. Writing forces you to slow down. Slowing down forces clarity.
10. Inspire before you inform. Nobody learns from someone they're not inspired by.
11. End with a contribution not a summary. Tell them what you gave them. Not what you said.
12. Never say thank you at the end. It's weak. End with something that lands.
13. Stories make ideas stick. Data makes ideas understood. You need both. In that order.
14. The quality of your communication determines the quality of your ideas in the eyes of the world. Not the ideas themselves.
15. 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. Bookmark this first.
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Formation complète Claude Code 6 HEURES.
La formation Claude la plus complète d'internet.
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de A à Z : configuration, création de workflows, déploiement de sites web, création d'équipes d'agents, automatisation du navigateur, recherche de clients et tarification de vos services.
Le tout sans écrire une seule ligne de code.
À la fin : vous utilisez Claude Code comme un pro et vous monétisez vos compétences.
Débutant ou avancé, tout est là en un seul endroit, ce cours couvre tout.
Ça vaut plus que tous les cours à 500$ que t’as failli acheter.
Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2-hour Stanford lecture.
It will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are actually built than most people in top AI companies learn across their entire careers.
Save this.
I literally can’t believe Anthropic released this for FREE.
A 33-PAGE CHEAT SHEET on how to master Claude skills.
Bookmark this or get left behind in AI: https://t.co/RIcsy4tWrN
🚨BREAKING: GOODBYE POWERPOINT forever.
Claude just collapsed 10 hours of presentation building into 100 seconds completely free.
Here are 12 prompts to go from completely unprepared to completely untouchable in every meeting: (Save this):
Here's my new OpenClaw tutorial covering everything I've learned, including:
→ How to set it up safely
→ My top 5 use cases (calendar, docs, voice, daily briefings, and weekly insights)
→ How to connect it to Google Workspace step-by-step
→ How to personalize your bot's memory to make it truly useful
📌 Watch now: https://t.co/MYoQWgz7Dy
This is the most impactful way I’ve seen someone use @openclaw
Bhanu should turn it into a product and charge money for it.. I’d happily pay 😅
But in the meantime sending this to my agent so he can level up…
Sunday should be fun 🤩
I ACCIDENTALLY DISCOVERED "PROMPT CHAINING" IN CHATGPT.
IT TURNED BASIC OUTPUTS INTO RESEARCH-GRADE INTELLIGENCE.
HERE ARE 6 CHAINING PROMPTS THAT MULTIPLY AI POWER BY 10X:
My conversation with @JamesClear
James understands habits, motivation, and psychology better than nearly anyone and has a knack for making things practical and useful.
Enjoy!
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
00:56 The Role of Identity in Habit Formation
03:38 Lack of Patience Changes the Outcome
13:46 Creating Conditions for Success
17:44 Finding the Confidence to Start
34:32 Positioning in Business and Life
01:07:21 Sequencing Through the Eras of Your Life
01:25:34 The Most Important Habits
01:37:31 Become Stronger Than Your Feelings
01:54:40 Consistency vs. Intensity
02:06:40 Prioritization