How Ideas Survive · card 10 of 10

"You will not go to hell if you conclude your talk by saying thank you, but it's a weak move." Winston's objection: it reframes an hour of attention as a favour the room did you. Salute them instead.

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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.
• How long a candidate actually gets.