laura

[shobhanai @HeyShobhan]

Ten million people have watched an MIT professor accidentally destroy the executive coaching industry.

He filmed the lecture once in January 2018 and died eighteen months later.

Executive coaches charge fifteen thousand dollars a session to teach a third of what he covered in one hour for free.

His name was Patrick Winston. He ran the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997 and wrote the AI textbook every computer science major in the world read for thirty years.

Every January for four decades, he gave a lecture called "How to Speak."

His entire framework fits on a napkin.

Do not read. Be in the image. Keep images simple. Eliminate clutter. Start with an empathetic connection. End with a punch line the audience can repeat over dinner. Never open with a joke. Never end with "thank you."

That last rule alone has probably cost the executive coaching industry a hundred million dollars.

"Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."

That is the actual opening line of the lecture. Winston believed it strongly enough to spend fifty years teaching computer scientists how to talk.

Founders spend $80,000 on an MBA and then hire a communications coach to teach them the same material Winston filmed once for free. Engineers write brilliant code and lose promotions to teammates who watched this lecture on the train.

The lecture is free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The textbook is free on his page.

Winston died in 2019. Almost none of the ten million viewers have actually implemented the four rules on the napkin.

The napkin is free. The willingness to actually use it in your next meeting is the entire edge.

[Zakir Hossain @zakiraicoder]

50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploring👇

1. https://t.co/ueX0rgHHma — Watch the world via live satellite imagery
2. https://t.co/ZvRw1wmNsJ — See every plane currently in the sky
3. https://t.co/ysMWhN8eU5 — Track all ships at sea in real time
4. https://t.co/ukJigDtLFY — Live map of winds and storms
5. https://t.co/Y1I20AitIs — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
6. https://t.co/LmzpGivPqL — Live list of recent earthquakes
7. https://t.co/VU7EuP5SOm — Ocean cables carrying the internet
8. https://t.co/kAAdHcSNpt — Watch forests disappear from space
9. https://t.co/bbkThFLpz1 — The world's statistics, second by second
10. https://t.co/pMvZJO0YfM — Current number of tweets and searches being posted
11. https://t.co/VhEnQl9oax — Compare the true sizes of countries
12. https://t.co/XyyYYcRjdm — Maps from centuries ago
13. https://t.co/AOXvH90KFK — Archive of 150,000 historical maps
14. https://t.co/u0Zf6LJoDZ — World map drawn by volunteers
15. https://t.co/p2uu9hAQks — Look out the window of a random person around the world
16. https://t.co/powm7RRAmX — Virtual walks through cities
17. https://t.co/bcsy3ybL07 — Teleport to a random spot on Earth
18. https://t.co/5YbDgnYpF7 — Catalog of the world's strangest places
19. https://t.co/SJN9aIxuyM — Interactive knowledge experiences
20. https://t.co/bpyBnZgtz1 — Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)
21. https://t.co/UP12t0jeRy — Explore the solar system in 3D
22. https://t.co/9xDWk6aGgf — Real sky map in your browser
23. https://t.co/ZSJokVTin1 — NASA's astronomy picture of the day
24. https://t.co/7XrqjHR7BR — NASA's entire visual archive, free
25. https://t.co/3tWvLaeyGu — Visual articles told through data
26. https://t.co/JY8FI1u9ls — The state of the world with real data
27. https://t.co/Ois9J7u7m7 — What we mistakenly think we know about the world
28. https://t.co/NtDVcv2cxN — Visualizing complex data
29. https://t.co/FqijxOqnJL — World Bank's open data
30. https://t.co/NyYgq0wMs7 — Turkey's official statistics database
31. https://t.co/KDjOuBVmft — Archive of millions of books, films, and software
32. https://t.co/9Y8pcXCzKu — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
33. https://t.co/hJt2YM0nzp — Record of every book in the world
34. https://t.co/6kwMQCzdZq — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
35. https://t.co/GAjugENT89 — Europe's cultural heritage archive
36. https://t.co/LPx73NbK1E — America's digital library collection
37. https://t.co/VjpuQq1BIZ — Tour museums from home
38. https://t.co/lkaoYLTy3S — Download artworks in high resolution
39. https://t.co/AX9cd7YatS — Archive of 250,000 artworks
40. https://t.co/WExwDy3e6F — Forgotten visual treasures of history
41. https://t.co/Bobq0w1hyR — Free archive of culture and education
42. https://t.co/bgBEuHixJo — Met Museum's open collection
43. https://t.co/jxj8X1LuEy — Family tree of music genres
44. https://t.co/d8lZJ9yWc3 — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
45. https://t.co/avmQLINXhU — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
46. https://t.co/7WDyOPTfU6 — Random knowledge well
47. https://t.co/4qVlBpRvCf — Time, sunrises, and sky events
48. https://t.co/V2ObL5vTSR — Live stream of science news
49. https://t.co/VFhRaZRXso — Free preprints of scientific papers
50. https://t.co/JUo9A2FPFW — Visualize data with live code

Save this. You’ll definitely need some of these later. 🔖

Follow @zakiraicoder for more useful websites, AI tools & tech resources.

[Bird 🐦‍⬛ @aurorauk1]

@beatty48bb @thedailyrabbit_ @grok The original interview
https://t.co/vdoC4RZPQu

[laura @ifyoumusk99]

@StormEllimac She is so naturally gorgeous but mua did her dirty. It’s the eye brows. Her face is way too delicate for those oversized brows.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[laura @ifyoumusk99]

@SqSehrish His name is What.

[laura @ifyoumusk99]

@TheGoldenHun I hope KC gets endless brand deals. He deserves it! ❤️

[Randall Barnes @AuthorRandallB]

And that’s it for me. Have fun with Love Island. Muted on my Twitter and will find a way to across my other socials.

[Ayo Oladipupo @Ayomitidipo]

Okay, this whole conversation between KC and Titi... 😭❤️

How do you not root for them to win? This is exactly what Love Island is all about. 🫶🏾🥹

#LoveIslandUSA

[Golden Rose @TheGoldenHun]

I have been watching LI USA since season two. KC is the first male islander I’ve ever gone this hard for. I support women but not blindly. KC was the victim this time around #loveislandusa

[Ladytron Fan Account @Lady_FanAccount]

“Cruel Summer” was released in 1983 as a standalone single by Bananarama and was later included on the American edition of the group’s 1984 self-titled album. Inspired by a rare heatwave in London, the song captured the frustration and restlessness of a sweltering city summer, while its video was filmed in New York during another bout of intense heat.

The single reached #8 in the UK, but it was its inclusion in The Karate Kid (1984) that gave it major exposure in the United States, where it reached #9 on Billboard Hot 100 and became Bananarama’s first American Top 10 hit.

[Golden Rose @TheGoldenHun]

We aren’t backing down. Stop villainizing black men. KC has chosen the black woman over and over again. He doesn’t deserve any of the bullying he is getting #loveislandusa

[DAMILOLA/LALA @lalatumie]

If you are Team KC like this tweet lets prepare for the upcoming vote

#LoveIslandUSA

[LURKINGBIRD 🎀 @Lurkingburrd01]

I’m just happy we still have sane people watching the show #Loveislandusa

[laura @ifyoumusk99]

@AuthorRandallB Beautifully written. I absolutely LOVE KC. He is a CATCH! ❤️❤️❤️

[Randall Barnes @AuthorRandallB]

https://t.co/FCO6H1Rm9T

[Tina Turtle 🐢 @tinaturttle]

So I found this video and I don’t think she wrong

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

You cannot claim that you’re aborting your Down syndrome child because you don’t want him to “suffer.” First of all, killing a child so they don’t suffer is psychopath serial killer logic. You’re on the same moral plane as Andrea Yates. Second, children with Down syndrome are famously some of the happiest people you’ll ever meet in your life. They are not in fact living in a state of perpetual torment. So what’s really happening is that you’re killing your child so that YOU won’t suffer the inconvenience of caring for him. This is about freeing yourself of your own perceived suffering. If you’re going to be a child killing sociopath, at least be honest about it.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

@marklevinshow Wow. You really showed him what’s what.

Anyway, thanks for the signal boost. More people should know about the loathsome terrorist behavior you’ve dedicated your life to defending.

[laura @ifyoumusk99]

@Dopegame_Fresh @sneminaj “Come daily close to the knee” ?? I’m not sure I know what you mean…