How Ideas Survive · card 03 of 10

"Some people think the right thing to do is to start a talk with a joke. I don't recommend it." Patrick Winston's reason is timing, not taste — in the first minute nobody has calibrated to your voice yet.

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• The claim the lecture opens with.
• He wrote the t small on purpose.
• 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.