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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Je vous recommande cette vidéo de @IV2FI, elle est tout simplement superbe ! Le boulot derrière est dingue.
Lien: https://t.co/ZCtrIYnwCD
J’adore le taff de ce gars, mais sur Bitcoin c’est encore mieux 👌
For early stage startups we ditched Figma-based UI/UX design process saving founders weeks of delaying go to market!
When early-stage founders come to us, they have one obsession: speed.
That’s why we ditched the traditional UX process. No lengthy design cycles. No endless Figma iterations.
Instead, here’s our 4-step approach:
1. Map customer journeys — both offline and online
2. Build user flows — for digital experience
3. Wireframe every screen in painful detail
4. Write out every user story
Once that’s done, we skip Figma and go straight to front-end — built by our UX designers using Cursor.
The result?
🔥 Front-End ready in 1 week
🔥 Fully functional apps in 4 weeks
🔥 Seamless go-live
In this video I compared our process to traditional UX and app development process as well as no-code/vibe coding one.
That’s what speed looks like — backed by our experience in developing enterprise ready software. We bring that meticulousness to the app early stage founders want to push to live.
The result? Scaleable, compliance and usable applications ready to serve thousands of users.
The golden rush hour for product consultants is here. Product consultants aren’t just advising anymore. They’re SHIPPING!
Today’s product consultant walks into a meeting and shows a working app.
Not a vision. Not a deck. A live MVP that the client can click, test, and approve on the spot.
Here’s the playbook:
1. They know UX and understand tech
2. Claude Code, Lovable or Replit -> their go to
3. Regular workshops with clients and fast iteration till the MVP is ready
4. Partner with a tech lead for production polish
That all takes a month at most.
Before AI, this workflow required several months and they'd need UX designers and developers to actively support them. NO MORE.
Are these MVPs perfect? No. That’s not the point.
For companies stuck in overthinking, inaction, and chaos, these AI-powered builds are more than enough to get started on their initiatives.
This is the era of taste makers!
We’re living in a time where intuition is strategy, and creativity is currency. Those brave enough to follow their taste will lead the AI revolution.
One of those brave creators is Scott Jones. He studied film and economics. He’s a musician. An artist. And now, VP of Product at Realeyes - Vision AI.
Scott isn’t building toward a dystopia. He’s designing for the opposite. A hopeful, human-centered AI future.
Having him on the podcast was a jolt of energy. Leaders like Scott prove that being audacious and idealistic isn’t just welcome. It’s essential.
Give this one a listen. It’s a masterclass in navigating AI with heart and vision. (Link to the episode in the DM)
"La France, ce pays pauvre qui a les dépenses sociales d'un pays riche"
34% du PIB en dépenses sociales, et 14% du PIB en dépenses de retraites, des records en proportion du PIB mais pas en valeur absolue par habitant...
https://t.co/CX0g0xlwoV
This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings.
Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my people, ever since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that Allah would extend my life so I could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of occupied Asqalan (Al-Majdal). But Allah’s will came first, and His decree is final. I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification—so that Allah may bear witness against those who stayed silent, those who accepted our killing, those who choked our breath, and whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered remains of our children and women, doing nothing to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half.
I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls.
I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family. I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed.
I entrust you with my dear son Salah, whom I had wished to support and accompany through life until he grew strong enough to carry my burden and continue the mission.
I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose blessed prayers brought me to where I am, whose supplications were my fortress and whose light guided my path. I pray that Allah grants her strength and rewards her on my behalf with the best of rewards.
I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah (Bayan), from whom the war separated me for many long days and months. Yet she remained faithful to our bond, steadfast as the trunk of an olive tree that does not bend—patient, trusting in Allah, and carrying the responsibility in my absence with all her strength and faith.
I urge you to stand by them, to be their support after Allah Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles. I testify before Allah that I am content with His decree, certain of meeting Him, and assured that what is with Allah is better and everlasting.
O Allah, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family. Forgive me if I have fallen short, and pray for me with mercy, for I kept my promise and never changed or betrayed it.
Do not forget Gaza… And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.
Anas Jamal Al-Sharif
06.04.2025
This is what our beloved Anas requested to be published upon his martyrdom.
Le monde entier voit désormais sans le moindre doute possible que non seulement Israël tue les enfants palestiniens délibérément, pour éliminer une génération, mais qu’en plus il le fait en les torturant, en les faisant souffrir, ajoutant du sadisme à sa barbarie.
Si ce gouvernement n’était pas celui d’Israël, état juif dont les soutiens inconditionnels sortent la carte « antisémite! » comme un bouclier, il serait au ban des nations depuis très longtemps.
Eh moi qui attendait de nouveaux épisodes de #theagency ce soir…
Apparemment la saison 1 s’est terminée la semaine dernière comme la fin d’un chapitre…
On se demande comment les événements récents vont infuser dans la série comme c’était le cas dans la version d’Eric Rochant.
Morrad est l’un des entrepreneurs les plus inspirants que j’ai rencontré. Il développe des solutions d’assurance en crypto respectant les principes de sa communauté (shariah-compliant) avec @takadao_io
RDV ce soir à 18h au restaurant « L'éveil des Sens » 252 r des Postes, Lille
Plaisir de recevoir ce matin au nom de @Ardeslandes une délégation de jeunes et d’élus de Nottingham à @univ-catholille. Tables rondes sur nos pratiques à @lillefrance au sujet de l’engagement des jeunes ds la vie politique & ds la Ville ! @ch_brun
🇸🇳 Dans un vacarme assourdissant, la gigantesque usine flottante d'un groupe minier français et sa drague mobile géante fendent les dunes du désert de Lompoul, au Sénégal. Les défenseurs des lieux dénoncent une mine colossale qui détruit un écosystème unique, son exploitant Eramet une activité "qui bénéficie au Sénégal" #AFPVertical⤵️
Vous souvenez‑vous quand vous avez rejoint X ? Moi, oui ! C’est à ce moment-là que je découvrais @Coconutsurfing en voyage à la rencontre de… #YY 😄 #MonAnniversaireX