Dan Porga

Dedicated 1000 % to my boys.

[Bio Bite 🥩 @BioBite_]

Amazing Northern Country Steak.

[Bills Mafia Art @billsmafiaart]

Live look at the Habs practice

[UNSENSRD @unsensrd]

Olympic level diving from the Habs last night. Absolute embarrassment to the game. 🤿🤿

[Matthew Bové @Matt_Bove]

Nothing quite like the atrium after a Sabres playoff win.

[A-Mik ✨ ⚔️ ✨ @amandadavey23]

Waking up and seeing that these guys FINALLY get to have this feeling. Pretty awesome and well deserved.

[Emotion & Music @Emotion78687]

When the live performance surpasses the original recording..magic

[David Alter @davidalter]

Amazing scene as the mic cuts out as the Sabres crowd sings Oh Canada in the anthem singer’s place. 🇨🇦

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

The mic cut out during O Canada, and the Buffalo crowd didn’t miss a beat 🇨🇦

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

The boys made it alive to Buffalo. Next stop, @BuffaloBlade we’re coming for you.

[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.

[Dan Porga @chief8]

@BuiltInBuffalo_ Gil

[Buffalo Sabres @BuffaloSabres]

Don't mess with the Blade Gang 😤

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This NFL player reveals the only exercise that sculpts abs for life, and it's surprisingly simple to do

[Duane Steinel @DuaneS39]

Super grateful to be featured (to an extent) by ESPN for “The 14 Winters of Buffalo” segment during The Point

I’m sure I have @wyshynski and @Arda to thank for that. You two and @emilymkaplan are beauties

Let’s get Cup Crazy Buffalo

https://t.co/7oa1wUrAgG

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Literally the Save of a Lifetime

[𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 - 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 - 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞⭐️❤️ @NgocThach74]

Sofia Vergara pulls the ultimate prank on Simon Cowell. 😂 America's Got Talent

[Buffalo Sabres @BuffaloSabres]

RT if you feel the same as Tuchy. ✋

[Buffalo Sabres @BuffaloSabres]

you had it coming, @ryanwhitney6

[Adam @adampensel]

Sums this season up