Chris Freeman

Father, Husband, Oracle DBA, SQL Developer user, APEX(FOEX) developer, Forms Developer, Fisherman, Motorcyclist, Old rusty Chevy truck enthusiast

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

The UNC Chapel Hill commencement speech from @ericchurch and the 6 pillars of life that we all must nurture:

• Faith
• Family
• Spouse
• Ambition
• Community
• Individuality

This is must see life and career advice delivered beautifully.

[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.

[Chris Freeman @chrisfreeman99]

@ScottBosch7 @MNUpNorthLakeG1 And its all of a sudden quiet when she walks by (no cheering at all)

[Chris Freeman @chrisfreeman99]

@ryaninmpls @JGeorge49 I am dismissing your opinion now, cook county elitist. I live in Hibbing and make my living there. I welcome mining.

[Chris Freeman @chrisfreeman99]

@ZuccM50932 @JGeorge49 These mines will not damage the bwca. It is flat misinformation to say this they will.

[Chris Freeman @chrisfreeman99]

@MNEricksonPA @JGeorge49 Iron Ranger here. Say you dont understand mining without saying you dont understand mining....

[Chris Freeman @chrisfreeman99]

@ryaninmpls @JGeorge49 No mining is even proposed to be in Cook County. In lake and st louis county he is right on (st louis county resident here).

[Dr. Urso @richardursomd]

@LaciMarieKnight So after all that drama…the people who skipped the COVID vaccine are just…fine??!!

Yeah 👍

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya explains that once he learned the mainstream media was lying to him, he left the Democrat Party

“You went from being a large Democrat donor to now a very outspoken proponent on the other side of the aisle”

Chamath Palihapitiya “Yeah — This is not about politics for me, it's about the truth. There was a moment where I was basically like everybody else, and pretty brainwashed.

My media diet was very much the same as everybody else's. I read the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. I watched a little bit of CNN, a little bit of CNBC, a little bit of MSNBC, a little bit of CBS Economist.

Every now and then you encounter it on a plane and you think you know what's going on, and I had a perception of Donald Trump initially, from the moment he walked down the staircase in Trump Tower to announce.

And then over the course of 6-7 years, I realized that some of those fundamental things that I was told about him were just totally false. And there was enough content online where I was almost afraid, but it started with Charlottesville.

I was almost afraid to look at it because I'm like, I think I was lied to. And then I saw it. I saw what he said, but then I saw the portrayal. I had originally believed that portrayal until I saw the truth.

And then I just started to go down that rabbit hole.

So for me, it was an evolution where I was like, I can't believe I'm being lied to by this group of people whose sole responsibility is to hold truth, to power. The key word there is truth to power, not your perception or your desires. And I just think that that, that, I mean, red-pilled me, I guess in a way”

[Taya Bass @travelingflying]

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.

Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.

Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

[Military Aviation and Firearms @JohnSchmuck5]

@GBNT1952 @DataRepublican

[✒️ @Literariium]

A girl asked, “Be honest. What do you think when you see a girl whose face and body look better than your wife’s or girlfriend’s?”

And a man replied, “Why light a candle when the sun is shining?”

And honestly, that response stayed with me.

Because it was not about pretending other women do not exist. It was about perspective. There will always be someone prettier, someone different, someone new. But when a man truly values the woman he has chosen, he does not measure her against passing faces. He sees her as his sun. And when the sun is shining, you do not go searching for small lights to impress you.

Real loyalty is not blindness. It is intention. It is waking up every day and choosing the person you already have. It is understanding that attraction is common, but commitment is rare. that kind of mindset is what makes a relationship feel safe. Not because no one else is beautiful, but because to him, she is home.

[Chris Freeman @chrisfreeman99]

@GovTimWalz Minnesotan here. Gas prices are still lower than what they were for the entire Biden admin. What are you even talking about? Who would be dumb enough to believe anything you say?

[Chris Freeman @chrisfreeman99]

@GovTimWalz Gas prices are still lower than they were for the ENTIRE Biden administration. Resign!

[Camus @newstart_2024]

RFK Jr. just shared something that will shock a lot of people:

“I always imagined Republicans got together thinking how to screw the poor and help the rich… but in this administration, everyone is narrowly focused on solving big problems and making the country work.”

He continues:

The idealism and sheer competence of the people around him — in the White House and at HHS — is genuinely inspiring.

He admits he hadn’t spent much time with Republicans before, and what he expected is the opposite of what he’s seeing.

In 1 minute and 8 seconds, he flips a long-held stereotype and paints a picture of a team driven by problem-solving, not ideology.

Love him or not, this candid reflection from inside the administration feels refreshingly honest.

What surprises you most about his take — the idealism, the competence, or the fact he’s saying it at all?

[Chris Freeman @chrisfreeman99]

@GovTimWalz Minnesota voter here: shut up and resign

[Chris Freeman @chrisfreeman99]

@Sadie_NC Yes!

[Ann Bauer @annbauerwriter]

Had an experience yesterday with a MN "AWFL" I'd like to share.
Nice woman. Autism mom. About 60. She wrote to ask how our move went and send me like a zillion pics from the Renee Good memorial & those Anne Frank quotes everyone in MN is circulating.
Friends, I LOST MY SHIT.🧵

[Chris Freeman @chrisfreeman99]

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