Nicolas Wauthoz

Passionné d'histoire 🏛️ et rat de bibliothèque depuis le plus jeune âge. Je suis un homme et rien de ce qui est humain ne m'est étranger

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

America is more unequal than many of its Western European peers, but even its lower middle class is well off compared to them.

Link: https://t.co/CwHKoiCMaW

[Lumen @lumenxbt]

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.

[politic@l spinner @Justabogan]

So well written.. Oliver you rock

[Alice Evans @_alice_evans]

I’m a big believer in building public spaces for young men to play sports

See this great paper on what happened when austerity Britain closed your clubs

https://t.co/chcKOFbpPh

[Conservative Dividend Investing @CDInewsletter]

How to create your own REIT with a 25/75 equity/debt ratio:

1. Buy shares in a REIT with a 50/50 debt/equity ratio
2. Borrow money
3. Double the original position
4. Use the REIT income to repay the loan

There you go. Tons of leverage, plus the REIT will be more diverse than just buying a SFH individually.

[Jérôme Godefroy @jeromegodefroy]

Il y a peu de journalistes français qui travaillent les dossiers et qui tentent d’aller au-delà des slogans simplistes.
Et, heureusement, il y a #PatrickCohen qui explique clairement dans @cavousf5 pourquoi le #Mercosur serait bénéfique pour la France.

[Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @sensorystories_]

10 signs you might be autistic... workplace edition...

1. You cry easily when confronted, even about something small, and have a hard time holding in your emotions

2. You ask a lot of questions when being shown how to do something or when trying to understand expectations

[François Malaussena @malopedia]

Alors apparemment, le film n'est toujours pas assez clair : Paul Atréides n'est PAS un héros, c’est supposé être le méchant de l’histoire. Sauf que… c’est un peu plus compliqué que ça. Et si on parlait un peu de Frank Herbert, de Dune et de ce que ça dit politiquement ? ⤵️

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

An effective treatment for depression from a systematic review of >200 unique RCTs:
Exercise
Benefit proportional to intensity of exercise prescribed
https://t.co/gvj7IdqN49
@bmj_latest @mnoetel @UQPsych

[Alf @MacroAlf]

Excellent table showing how recessionary bear markets tend to bottom when:

- PMIs are well below 50
- Unemployment rate has already risen by 1.3pp
- Future expected EPS have been revised down 10%+

None of the conditions are met today, and unlikely to be met until Q1/Q2 2023.

[Nicolas Wauthoz @nwauthoz]

La Belgique leader mondial, avec une capacité installée par habitant inférieure au Danemark, à la Finlande, l'Allemagne, l'Irlande, le Portugal, l'Espagne et la Suède. Faudra qu'on m'explique... 🧐

[Philippe Henry @phh_Henry]

La Belgique leader mondial dans le domaine de l'énergie éolienne ! Le rapport du @WWF met en lumière l'impact positif de nos initiatives fédérales et régionales mais nous rappelle l'importance cruciale de rester vigilants pour maintenir le cap défini par le PACE 2030 @TinneVdS

[Nicolas Wauthoz @nwauthoz]

10 films qui m'ont bouleversé ou époustouflé :
- Trois couleurs : Rouge
- Mystic River
- Arizona Dream
- Le labyrinthe de Pan
- The Quiet American
- La constance du jardinier
- Les indestructibles
- Le prestige
- The Big Lebowski
- Der untergang

[Sirc Casto @CastoSirc]

@ValueStockGeek I think most good investors go through an arc of 1st naïve simplicity, 2nd reaching for extreme complexity, and 3rd returning to informed simplicity. I think the big brain 3rd level thinking investment theses can make money, but it is by nature more difficult and short term

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

If you can look at this chart of life expectancy falling on every continent on Earth and still convince yourself covid was overblown, that's your brain on coping mechanism mode

[Antoine Copra @Cobra_FX_]

Chez Reporterre, on pense carrément qu’on vit dans un état de guerre généralisé, qu’on empoisonne les gens, qu’on appauvrit les pays du Sud… il faudrait revenir sur le progrès et la civilisation !

Rappelons que le 🌍 n’a jamais été aussi sûr, si bien nourri et en bonne santé.

[Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 @DinaPomeranz]

The world has witnessed incredible poverty reduction in recent decades.

*Never* in human history a smaller share of the population lived with less than the equivalent of $2.15 a day.

In 1820 around 80% lived in extreme poverty. Today less than 10%.

[Nicolas Wauthoz @nwauthoz]

@philbur17 Si le certificat d'immatriculation mentionne "Euro 4", je ne vois pas sur quelle base ils pourraient te refuser de rouler. Se baser sur l'année semble s'appliquer lorsque le certif ne mentionne aucune norme. Mais c'est dingue qu'ils ne puissent pas répondre.

[Nicolas Wauthoz @nwauthoz]

Intéressant de voir qu'en Belgique, le salaire des infirmières est plus que décent.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

The result is that highly skilled and expensively trained medical professionals are slipping down the UK’s income distribution, while the list of countries where they could earn more grows by the year.

[Nicolas Wauthoz @nwauthoz]

@BioHospitalix

[Antoine Copra @Cobra_FX_]

Il y a une évidence, qui devrait précéder tout débat politique ou écologique :

Nous ne vivons pas dans une économie à somme nulle, mais à somme positive.

Et cela, depuis plus de 2 siècles.
#thread ⬇️