How Ideas Survive · card 05 of 10

Why Winston says everything three times: at any given moment about 20% of a room is fogged out — and it's a different 20% each time. Cycling isn't condescension, it's redundancy against a noisy channel.

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• The claim the lecture opens with.
• He wrote the t small on purpose.
• The first thing he crosses out.
• What goes there instead.
• 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.