Jimmy 又 Bean

"In the end, you won’t remember the time spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."-Kerouac #RVA #CF #girldad 又

[VCU Basketball @VCU_Hoops]

picked up a few things to get ready for the season 🛒

get your 🎟️ in our bio ⤴️

[Ryan Hammer🔨 @ryanhammer09]

ALL 14 *Inside the A10* episodes are up on YouTube!!!

For A10 fans & CBB fans of any kind - meet every single coach in the conference & 40 different players.

+ see what's different about every program/school in the conference.

Watch them here: https://t.co/TrY8znzL8G

[Shooty Hoops @ShootyH00ps]

Our model ranked the A-10.

Then we filled out our official ballot and disagreed with it.

A strong sign of organizational health.

Our 2026–27 @A10MBB Preview is LIVE w/ both rankings, All-A10 picks, awards and a ballot so you can disagree with all of us. 👇

https://t.co/OPycnL1icr

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

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.

Bookmark this first.

Follow @cyrilXBT for more lessons from the people who built the future.

[michael phillips @michaelpinRVA]

List of teams who have beaten Duke, Kansas and UNC in the NCAA men's basketball tournament:
Arizona
Arkansas
Indiana
Kentucky
UCLA
VCU
Villanova

[Jimmy 又 Bean @beanjimmy]

@Jay__Catsby This my manager every time 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Jimmy 又 Bean @beanjimmy]

@thetoddvcu @steph_41_ I’d give the offense a B- and defense a C-. I understand it’s early but against a bottom tier program we should’ve looked a lot better. Defense looked scattered and rebounding was not a priority.

[Jimmy 又 Bean @beanjimmy]

@thetoddvcu Golden is my daughters favorite 👍🏻👍🏻

[Jimmy 又 Bean @beanjimmy]

@VCUSportsProp It was showing up live at 6pm I couldn’t get it at noon. I assume it’ll be posted on the podcast feed?

[Jimmy 又 Bean @beanjimmy]

@RyanOdomsBurner Now he’s just somebody that we used to know

[Jimmy 又 Bean @beanjimmy]

@temptherat @BelkReport I work for Coke so I may be biased but, this statement is 100% accurate

[Jimmy 又 Bean @beanjimmy]

@SensesFail @carlocavaluzzi Sharts

[Jimmy 又 Bean @beanjimmy]

@DytFlyers The context of the article is of current open jobs and in that, it’s very true.

[Ram Ram Ram 🐏 @vcuRamRamRam]

Chills 🏆🔥 @VCU_Hoops

[Jimmy 又 Bean @beanjimmy]

@3BidLeaguePod Reynolds shot was not the shot you’d want in that situation anyway, especially coming out of a timeout… 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Robby Robinson @RobbyVCU]

ICYMI because you were at the game yesterday, here's a phenomenal segment that CBS Sports produced on Joe Bamisile. It's worth your 5 minutes to watch. https://t.co/sZqmKvs1Ft #LetsGoVCU

[Jimmy 又 Bean @beanjimmy]

@RhodyVault Now do Odom

[Jimmy 又 Bean @beanjimmy]

@MatSheltonEide 👍🏻🫡

[Jimmy 又 Bean @beanjimmy]

@MatSheltonEide 146 Virginia Tech

[Jimmy 又 Bean @beanjimmy]

@VCURamsRewind @temptherat @stevemullen Thanks for using some of my questions 👍🏻