Mike Gallagher (Malatoor)

Star Trek Deep Space Nine is the most woke show ever made and you'd have to go out of your way to outdo it on that front. Also it's the onky Trek show to have Iggy Pop guest star which automatically makes it the best one.

Game devs, I want you to know you're awesome. Making a game is one of the most vulnerable things you can do. It's like carving out a piece of your soul and saying 'Here’s who I am, please be kind.' The fear of rejection is real. But don't give up. Keep going! ❤️

A MIT professor taught the same lecture every January for 40 years, and every single time it was standing room only. I watched it at 2am and it completely rewired how I think about communication. His name was Patrick Winston. The lecture is called "How to Speak." His opening line hit like a truck: your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas in that order. Not your GPA. Not your pedigree. Not your IQ. How you speak is what separates people who get heard from people who get ignored. Here's the framework he drilled into MIT students for four decades. He said never start with a joke. Start by telling people exactly what they're going to learn. Prime the pump before you pour anything in. He called it the "empowerment promise" give people a reason to stay in their seats within the first 60 seconds. Then he broke down the 5S rule for making ideas stick: Symbol, Slogan, Surprise, Salient, and Story. Every idea worth remembering hits at least three of these. The part that floored me was his "near miss" technique. Don't just show what's right show what almost looks right but isn't. That contrast is when the brain actually locks something in permanently. His final rule before any big talk: end with a contribution, not a summary. Don't recap what you said. Tell people what you gave them that they didn't have before they walked in. I've used this framework in pitches, interviews, and presentations ever since watching it, and the results are not subtle. Patrick Winston passed away in 2019, but this lecture is still free on MIT OpenCourseWare. One hour, watched by millions, and it costs absolutely nothing. The most important class MIT ever put on the internet isn't about code or math. It's about how to make people actually listen to you.

Christopher Nolan’s 30 favourite films of all time: 1) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick) 2) 12 Angry Men (1957, Lumet) 3) Alien (1979, Scott) 4) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, Milestone) 5) Bad Timing (1980, Roeg) 6) The Battle of Algiers (1966, Pontecorvo) 7) Blade Runner (1982, Scott) 8) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1978, Spielberg) 9) First Man (2018, Chazelle) 10) For All Mankind (1989, Reinert) 11) Foreign Correspondent (1940, Hitchcock) 12) Greed (1924, Stroheim) 13) The Hit (1984, Frears) 14) Koyaanisqatsi (1983, Reggio) 15) Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Lean) 16) Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983, Oshima) 17) Metropolis (1927, Lang) 18) Mr. Arkadin – (1955, Welles) 19) The Right Stuff (1983, Kaufman) 20) Saving Private Ryan (1988, Spielberg) 21) The Spy Who Loved Me (1977,Gilbert) 22) Ryan’s Daughter (1970, Lean) 23) Star Wars (1977, Lucas) 24) Street of Crocodiles (1986, The Brothers Quay) 25) Sunrise (1927, Murnau) 26) Superman: The Movie (1978, Donner) 27) The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Lang) 28) The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1988) 29) Topkapi (1964, Dassin) 30) The Tree of Life (2011, Malick) ("Christopher Nolan’s 30 favourite movies of all time", Jack Whatley, Far out Magazine, 2024)