How Ideas Survive · card 09 of 10

Winston asked two colleagues what they look for in a faculty candidate: vision, and evidence you've done something. Then he asked how long the candidate has to establish both. Five minutes.

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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.
• 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.
• Why the last thing you say shouldn't be thank you.