P Lofy

Regular guy. Husband, Dad of 3 great kids, Retired from the Army and still serves his country.

[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.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang just said the quiet part out loud about what the education system will never admit.

For a century, we built humans to think like calculators.

The algorithm made that skillset obsolete overnight.

Huang: “The definition of smart is somebody who’s intelligent, solve problems, technical. But I find that that’s a commodity. And we’re about to prove that artificial intelligence is able to handle that part easiest.”

Software engineering was supposed to be the safe play.

Superintelligence cleared it first.

The SAT was supposed to measure intelligence. It was measuring the ability to follow instructions. Raw technical processing isn’t a competitive edge anymore. It’s the floor the machine stepped over before you woke up.

The question isn’t what you can calculate.

It’s what you can see before the data shows up.

Huang: “People who are able to see around corners are truly, truly smart. And their value is incredible. To be able to preempt problems before they show up, just because you feel the vibe.”

That vibe isn’t magic.

It’s the collision of first principles, human empathy, and lived experience no model can fake.

Huang: “That vibe came from a combination of data, analysis, first principle, life experience, wisdom, sensing other people.”

The operators who see around corners will command the AI.

The ones waiting for dashboards to update will be replaced by it.

Huang: “I think long term the definition of smart is someone who sits at that intersection of being technically astute, but human empathy and having the ability to infer the unspoken, around the corners, the unknowables.”

The unspoken variables are the new leverage.

The human psychology inside a market. The invisible friction in a negotiation. The instinct to build something nobody asked for yet.

You can’t spreadsheet your way there. You can’t prompt your way to that perception. It comes from decades of watching what doesn’t show up in the metrics.

Huang: “And that person might actually score horribly on the SAT.”

The future doesn’t belong to people who memorized answers.

It belongs to people who sense the questions before anyone thinks to ask.

The old system tested your ability to follow orders. The new one tests your ability to move through the unknown. And the machine can’t help you with that part.

That part is entirely on you.

[P Lofy @p_lofy]

@Cassiematic @MJ_NFLDraft He played for Wisconsin for 4 years. He left after being underappreciated by the Luke Fickell coaching staff.

[P Lofy @p_lofy]

@HBTFD1

[P Lofy @p_lofy]

@theamelia__ Who?

[P Lofy @p_lofy]

@indygrl Who?

[P Lofy @p_lofy]

@ThomasSowell @doddtra

[P Lofy @p_lofy]

@FreylerMike Congrats Beau. Great things ahead!

[Matt Lepay @MattLepay]

Give yourself a few minutes to read this.

[PFF College @PFF_College]

Florida WR Chimere Dike at the 2025 Combine:

🐊 40 Yard Dash: 4.34s
🐊 Vertical Jump: 38.50”
🐊 Broad Jump: 10’8”

@GatorsFB

[BadgerExtra @BadgerExtra]

Max Lofy had left the Badgers and was ready to begin the final phase of his football career at Rice. A series of tests on his heart changed those plans. https://t.co/pPMYhRizRz

[Max Lofy @Mclofy]

Thank you football!! The game has taught me so much and I am excited for what lies ahead!! All praise to the most high❤️

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Sowell on Fox News, they had it so good back in the day!

[Rice Football @RiceFootball]

Welcome Home to our Mid-Year Additions‼️ 🤩

#WE

[P Lofy @p_lofy]

@FreylerMike Great young man and athlete. He overcame a lot to get that far. He'll have a bright future in whatever he chooses to do.

[Wisconsin Football @BadgerFootball]

great lake day 😎🌊

[Wisconsin Football @BadgerFootball]

day by day 📈

[P Lofy @p_lofy]

@CharlieBerens Charlie - you forgot us in Denver :(

[Nick Bruesewitz @NickBruesewitz]

I was able to grab @BadgerFootball DB Max Lofy (@Mclofy) for a one-on-one this week before Wisconsin travels to face USC on Saturday, asking about the bye week and more!

“You got to work on exactly what you needed to work on to take the next step forward”

#Badgers #Wisconsin

[P Lofy @p_lofy]

@BadgerFootball @BraelonAllen Another Badger @JoeTippmann helping pave the way!