Acabo de escuchar la expresión más castiza, rencorosa y elegante a la vez que he oído en mi vida: ya quisieras saber tú todo lo que a mí se me ha olvidado.
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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#Buenaventura consolida su liderazgo portuario con la incorporación de las grúas pórtico más grandes del país en la Sociedad Puerto Industrial Aguadulce, las cuales aportarán al posicionamiento del Pacífico colombiano como un nodo estratégico en la conexión Asia–Pacífico.
Nate White, a British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:
“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”
¡Atracción de inversión para Cali! Gracias al liderazgo de @alejoeder hoy recibimos al embajador de Francia con más de 15 empresarios de ese país interesados en nuestra ciudad.
Nos llena de orgullo tener la oportunidad de ser la sede de la Cumbre de #Biodiversidad más importante del mundo #COP16 y poder mostrarle al mundo la riqueza biológica de #CaliCo que hacen de la ciudad una capital biodiversa por excelencia. #CaliEsCOP16
Caleños,
Hoy me reuní por primera vez con la gobernadora electa @DilianFrancisca, porque tenemos claro que para revivir y reconciliar a Cali y el valle necesitamos trabajar de la mano desde la Alcaldía y la Gobernación.
Con la gobernadora electa acordamos que nuestro primer acto será un Consejo metropolitano de Seguridad, para tomar medidas conjuntas para enfrentar la inseguridad en Cali y los municipios del área metropolitana.
La gobernadora y yo buscaremos mecanismos para financiar la capacitación de nuevos policías, la construcción de nuevos CAI -entre ellos uno en la Zona de Expansión-, el aporte para tecnología y el control en los accesos a Cali por el sur.
También acordamos avanzar a buen ritmo en la ejecución del primer tramo del Tren de cercanías, incluida la implementación de la Autoridad Regional de Transporte y el Ente Gestor, así como la realización de obras viales para la descongestión del sur de Cali como la Avenida Cañasgordas.
Encontramos una gran coincidencia en la necesidad de estimular el crecimiento económico y la generación de ingresos, a partir de la formación para el trabajo de jóvenes caleños y aumentar los recursos para que InvestPacific atraiga más proyectos de inversión que generen empleos formales y dignos.
Acordamos también explorar el desarrollo de la zona franca del oriente y convocar rápidamente a una reunión de nuestros equipos de trabajo para perfeccionar la agenda común para este cuatrienio.
Y, por último, les cuento que ella asistirá a mi posesión como alcalde de Cali y yo asistiré a la posesión de ella como gobernadora.
A Cali y al Valle los reconciliaremos con amor.
#AlcaldeEDER
El Valle del Cauca es el 2% de territorio colombiano pero representa:
💰10% del PIB nacional
🏭18% de la industria colombiana
🍍22% de la agroindustria
Les comparto esta nota sobre el crecimiento de la inversión internacional en nuestro departamento.
https://t.co/GdBOkNCjIi
Debo decir, que detrás de estos impresionantes logros hay entidades que los han liderado, que se han puesto la camiseta del Valle y han trabajado uno a uno estos proyectos de inversión Internacionales, especialmente @investpacific y la Secretaría de Desarrollo Económico y Competitividad, @SedecV 👏🏻
¿Vosotros también pensáis que las cosas que cuentan de Finlandia se las van inventando sobre la marcha?
Del tipo...
Pues en Finlandia si falta un niño un día al cole por enfermedad, le dan a los padres una ayuda de 300€ y va una persona a limpiar la cocina de la casa del niño.
🗞️ Mientras las exportaciones en Colombia decrecen, en el Valle del Cauca crecen. De acuerdo con el @DANE_Colombia durante el primer semestre de 2023 las exportaciones en la región aumentaron un 7.8%, con un total de USD 1.181 Millones en exportaciones. @p3bravo. @Periodico_Valle
🗞️ En entrevista con @ValoraAnalitik, el Secretario @p3bravo destacó que durante el último cuatrienio, hemos atraído 70 proyectos de inversión en un trabajo articulado con @investpacific, @mauriciocr82, que representan US$1.200 millones. Más detalles aquí: https://t.co/EixH1vHLBK
#AgendaInvías | En Caloto, Cauca, participamos en las pruebas de las Barreras de Basalto, una tecnología sostenible que no se oxida, de hecho, podría competir con las barreras de acero que tradicionalmente se utilizan en las vías por ser un material resistente y no tóxico.