Howard Zody

Retired educator. Husband to a very tolerant woman. Father to a great son and daughter. Go Buckeyes!

[Howard Zody @zody_howard]

@SherrodBrown Spread the word! Voter suppression!!!

[Sherrod Brown @SherrodBrown]

Love to catch a Guards win from the best seats in the house! #GuardsBall #StandGuard

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

This should outrage every American. This is the president of the United States telling Iran to bomb American cities. I live in Los Angeles, but that’s beside the point. Tommorow it could be your city.

My fellow Americans, this is not normal. This is not funny. This behavior should ring alarm bells for us all!

[Howard Zody @zody_howard]

@SleeperGuards Ken Harrelson and Tony Horton

[Proud Native Americans @proud_native_am]

I don't know why this hasn't received more publicity, but this fifty-foot sculpture was unveiled recently in South Dakota.

It's called 'Dignity' and was done by artist Dale Lamphere to honor the women of the Sioux Nation.

Thank you for liking my post!

Proud to be Native American

[Howard Zody @zody_howard]

Genius

[Howard Zody @zody_howard]

@Jarhead3534 @JohnKulewicz The law must be upheld. Stop the financial frisking of the people of Ohio.

[Howard Zody @zody_howard]

@egoldie80 NOBODY believes you.

[Howard Zody @zody_howard]

@atrupar BS!!!!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world. Most of all, it’s a testament to the resilience and determination of the Hungarian people – and a reminder to all of us to keep striving for fairness, equality and the rule of law.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A MIT professor taught the same lecture every January for 40 years, and every single time it was standing room only.

I watched it at 2am and it completely rewired how I think about communication.

His name was Patrick Winston. The lecture is called "How to Speak."

His opening line hit like a truck: 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.

Not your GPA. Not your pedigree. Not your IQ. How you speak is what separates people who get heard from people who get ignored.

Here's the framework he drilled into MIT students for four decades.

He said never start with a joke. Start by telling people exactly what they're going to learn. Prime the pump before you pour anything in. He called it the "empowerment promise" give people a reason to stay in their seats within the first 60 seconds.

Then he broke down the 5S rule for making ideas stick: Symbol, Slogan, Surprise, Salient, and Story. Every idea worth remembering hits at least three of these.

The part that floored me was his "near miss" technique. Don't just show what's right show what almost looks right but isn't. That contrast is when the brain actually locks something in permanently.

His final rule before any big talk: end with a contribution, not a summary. Don't recap what you said. Tell people what you gave them that they didn't have before they walked in.

I've used this framework in pitches, interviews, and presentations ever since watching it, and the results are not subtle.

Patrick Winston passed away in 2019, but this lecture is still free on MIT OpenCourseWare. One hour, watched by millions, and it costs absolutely nothing.

The most important class MIT ever put on the internet isn't about code or math. It's about how to make people actually listen to you.

[Howard Zody @zody_howard]

@FozonCapital @atrupar Vote out the Billionaire influence in Ohio

[Sherrod Brown @SherrodBrown]

Jon Husted's corruption has no limit. He's now using the war in Iran to lie his way out of appearing at a criminal trial.

[Howard Zody @zody_howard]

@amyactonoh Ramaswamy is not pumping his gas. How would he know the price? Vote the billionaires out of Ohio politics.

[Howard Zody @zody_howard]

@davetayloroh Over 50,000 unidentified children are waiting for rescue. Urge Congress to move on the Renewed Hope Act to rescue children seen in abuse images. These children cannot wait!

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

INSANE: British grandmother BEGS people not to go America, after being imprisoned for six weeks -- for committing no crime, and holding a valid visa.

Karen Newton was on the trip of a lifetime. Yellowstone. Old Faithful. A bison beside the car. She had a British passport and a valid tourist visa. No criminal record. No overstays. No charges. “I don’t even have parking tickets,” she said. “I am not a dangerous criminal.”

When she and her husband tried to leave the US for Canada, border officials flagged his expired visa and turned them back. Hers was valid. It did not matter. She was handcuffed, shackled at the wrists, waist and ankles, and locked in a cell.

She slept on the floor under foil blankets. Then she was driven 12 hours overnight to the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.

She was detained for 42 days -- again, she committed NO CRIME.

But Newton’s reality was six weeks in what she calls a prison. “It’s called a detention facility, but it’s really a prison,” she said. “Locking doors, guards everywhere, cells, everything clamped to the floor.” She slept on the floor for a month because she could not climb to a top bunk. “You only really appreciate your freedom when you’ve had it taken away.”

She believes the pressure to produce detention figures is driving it. “I think it’s Trump insisting they generate figures on how many people they are detaining. I can’t think of any other reason.”

She warned other tourists, “Don’t go – not with Trump in charge. It’s totally out of control over there. There’s no accountability.”

Like and Share if you support telling tourists to stay away from America, until we've made it safe enough for them.

[Howard Zody @zody_howard]

@TalbertSwan Trump will be forgotten and Rev. Jackson will be remembered. History will get it right.

[Howard Zody @zody_howard]

@ElephantSignal 20. I’m old

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Donald Trump has attacked USA Olympic skier Hunter Hess on social media, calling him a “real loser” for expressing concern about the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by ICE.

RETWEET if you stand with Hess against Trump!