How Ideas Survive · card 01 of 10

Patrick Winston opened his How to Speak lecture the same way for forty years: your success will be determined by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas — in that order.

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• He wrote the t small on purpose.
• The first thing he crosses out.
• What goes there instead.
• Cycling is redundancy against a noisy channel.
• The standard wait for an answer.
• On the people who want to dim the room.
• The ten slide crimes, stripped off one at a time.
• How long a candidate actually gets.
• Why the last thing you say shouldn't be thank you.