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A dead MIT professor accidentally destroyed the $25 billion executive coaching industry with one hour of lecture, and ten million people have already watched him do it.
He filmed it once in January 2018 and died eighteen months later.
Executive coaches charge sixteen thousand dollars a session to teach a third of what he covered in that 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.
The answer is in this video. Don't miss this gem.
UN says it's genocide
HRC says it's genocide
PVA says it's genocide
ICJ says it's genocide
ICC says it's genocide
Anyone who knows anything about genocide says it's genocide—except the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights—despite 517 staff from his office signed an internal letter accusing him of silence and failure to describe it as a genocide
For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored.
That ends today.
My administration is launching a free online portal for 9/11-related documents and releasing the first 170,000 pages today — available now at https://t.co/YnJTIIZ3lt.
These records prove what families and first responders have long known: City government knew the conditions around Ground Zero were dangerous — yet lied to New Yorkers.
Thousands pay the price for this. They bear the effects of that day every time they struggle to breathe or visit the doctor. More people have died from 9/11-related illnesses than were killed on the day itself.
As we mark twenty five years since September 11th, our vow to Never Forget will not waver. We will remember — and honor — those we have lost with the accountability and honesty they deserve.
The Iran blockade is biting hard.
Floating crude could be gone by mid-October, loadings are down 85%, petrochemical exports ~⅔, and Kpler sees production shut-ins beginning.
This is becoming a physical oil-system squeeze, not sanctions theater.
Iran is still delivering about 1 mmb/d, mostly to China, but that increasingly comes from crude already outside the Gulf.
Meanwhile, even Chinese buyers are finding alternatives as Saudi, UAE and especially heavily discounted Iraqi barrels compete with increasingly scarce Iranian crude.
This is no longer mainly about depriving Iran of today's export revenue.
The blockade is forcing contraction of the physical petroleum system itself while simultaneously squeezing the foreign currency needed to finance the state, military and imports.
The unresolved question is political: severe economic pressure can reduce Tehran's options without necessarily producing capitulation—and may instead increase incentives for escalation.
#Iran #Oil #Hormuz #Energy #Geopolitics
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Goldman on oil
Friendly reminder before the pitchforks come out, this is from GS oil desk, not my personal take.
Please don't be mad at me guys.... Dropping the spicy charts in the thread below.
#oott#iran
James Talarico: “When we win this race, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption agenda. Getting big money out of our politics by overturning Citizens United, banning corporate PACs and Super PACs so billionaires aren’t making unlimited donations to our campaigns, and banning members of Congress from trading stocks and enriching themselves while they’re in public office. We must pass term limits so people aren’t making a career out of public service. We must overhaul the Supreme Court so we can have confidence in the highest court in the land. And we must pass a national ban to end gerrymandering once and for all in every state in the union”
The Israeli🇮🇱 Consul General in New York came to Harvard University to lecture students on "Israel's just struggle,".
All students stood up and left the hall!😂🤣