How Ideas Survive · card 02 of 10

Winston's formula for how well you communicate: knowledge, plus practice, plus talent — and he writes the talent term small on purpose. "What really matters is what you know."

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• The claim the lecture opens with.
• 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.