Hlrnanshn Kurnar

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Hlrnanshn Kurnar

Hlrnanshn Kurnar

@palmito172

biochem

Algeria Katılım Eylül 2020
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Himanshu Kumar
Himanshu Kumar@codewithimanshu·
A MIT professor gave a 1-hour lecture in 2019 that has 18 million views. He died 5 months after recording it. It was his final gift to the world. Patrick Winston taught at MIT for 50 years. The smartest engineers on earth sat in his classroom. And he spent his last lecture teaching them the one skill their degrees never covered. How to speak. 15 lessons that will change how you communicate forever: 1. Never open with a joke. Your audience is not ready to laugh yet. Open with a promise of what they'll know by the end. 2. Your ideas are like your children. You're too close to them. What's obvious to you is invisible to everyone else. Explain the obvious. 3. The 5-minute rule. The first 5 minutes of any talk decide whether people listen for the next 55. Spend more time on your opening than anything else. 4. Repeat your most important idea 3 times in 3 different ways. Once is never enough. 5. Build a fence around your idea. Tell people what it is NOT before you tell them what it IS. 6. Verbal punctuation. Pause. Let the idea land before moving to the next one. 7. Ask questions nobody will answer. Then wait 7 seconds. The silence isn't awkward. It's processing. 8. Never read your slides. Your audience can read. They can't listen and read simultaneously. 9. Use the board not the slides. Writing forces you to slow down. Slowing down forces clarity. 10. Inspire before you inform. Nobody learns from someone they're not inspired by. 11. End with a contribution not a summary. Tell them what you gave them. Not what you said. 12. Never say thank you at the end. It's weak. End with something that lands. 13. Stories make ideas stick. Data makes ideas understood. You need both. In that order. 14. The quality of your communication determines the quality of your ideas in the eyes of the world. Not the ideas themselves. 15. Practice is not preparation. Practice IS the skill. Patrick Winston understood something most people spend their entire careers missing. Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to transfer them into someone else's mind. You can be the smartest person in the room and be completely invisible. Or you can master communication and make average ideas feel like breakthroughs. He chose to spend his last lecture teaching this. Watch it tonight. Bookmark this first. Follow @codewithimanshu for more lessons from the people who built the future.
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Himanshu Kumar@codewithimanshu·
A Hungarian dad ran an experiment to prove geniuses are made, not born. He homeschooled his 3 daughters in chess from age 4. Two became grandmasters. One became the greatest female chess player in history. The world saw this and concluded: pick a path early, drill it hard, manufacture excellence. Then a sports scientist looked at the data and found something nobody wanted to hear. His name is David Epstein. The book is called "Range." His finding took 4 years of research to put into one sentence: chess works that way. Most things don't. There are 2 kinds of environments humans develop expertise in: Kind environments → clear rules, instant feedback, repeating patterns. Chess. Golf. Classical music. Drill 10,000 hours and you'll dominate. Wicked environments → delayed feedback, shifting rules, patterns that flip overnight. Medicine. Investing. Building companies. Scientific research. Almost every job that involves humans. The Polgar sisters trained in the kindest environment any human can train in. The method worked. The mistake was applying it everywhere. Epstein dug into elite athletes outside chess and golf. Found the inverse: → Roger Federer played squash, badminton, basketball, handball, tennis, table tennis, and soccer before specializing. → The kids who specialized in tennis at 6 mostly burned out, got injured, or topped out. He found the same pattern everywhere outside kind environments: → Inventors with the most patents worked in multiple unrelated fields first. → Comic creators with the longest careers had drawn the most different genres. → Nobel Prize scientists were dramatically more likely than peers to be serious amateur musicians, painters, or writers. The skill that mattered in wicked environments wasn't depth in one pattern. It was recognizing when a pattern from one domain unexpectedly applied in another. That thinking can't be built by drilling 1 subject. It can only be built by collecting mental models from many subjects and learning to move between them. The deepest finding from his research: Specialists in wicked environments often get worse with experience, not better. Studies on doctors, financial analysts, intelligence officers, and forecasters all showed the same pattern. Years of experience produced more confident judgments without producing more accurate ones. The expert builds mental models that feel comprehensive and slowly disconnect from the real problem. They stop noticing what doesn't fit their framework. They mistake fluency for understanding. Generalists do better in wicked domains because: → They're less invested in any single mental model, so they abandon broken models faster. → They're used to being a beginner, so the discomfort of not knowing doesn't threaten them. → They've seen enough fields that they can usually find an analogy that unlocks a stuck problem. The most useful line in the entire book: Match quality matters more than head start. A person who tries 6 fields in their 20s and finds the one that actually fits them will outperform someone who picked one field at 14 and stuck to it on willpower. The lost years were not lost. They were the search process that produced the match. Every field they walked away from taught them something they later imported into the field they finally chose. The reason this is so hard to accept is cultural, not empirical. We tell kids to pick a path early. We reward the prodigy who knew at 6. We treat the late bloomer as someone who failed to launch on time. The data says they were running a more effective optimization process underneath. The Polgar sisters weren't wrong. The conclusion the world drew from them was. If your environment is genuinely kind, specialize early and drill hard. If it's wicked, and almost every interesting human problem is, the people who win are the ones who refused to specialize until they had seen enough to know what was actually worth specializing in. You're not behind. You were running the right experiment all along.
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Himanshu Kumar@codewithimanshu·
How to earn passive income through Claude + Crypto. My no-BS take on the truth about making money with AI in Crypto, so you can make the most of it. Most make money with crypto advice is recycled garbage from 2021. I'll break down 2 strategies that actually work in 2026. Both running on Claude. Both fully automated. 🧵👇
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Hlrnanshn Kurnar@palmito172·
5-Minute Avocado Toast Hack! Mash 1 ripe avocado + pinch salt/pepper, spread on toasted sourdough, top with red pepper flakes + a squeeze lime. Quick, creamy, so satisfying—perfect for busy mornings or lazy snacks! #AvocadoToast #QuickRecipes #HomemadeJoy
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Hlrnanshn Kurnar@palmito172·
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" Spent the night laughing with @[综艺名]’s cast! Who’s your favorite contestant Drop a if you binged it too! #综艺打卡 #MustWatch"
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10-min Creamy Tomato Pasta! Sauté garlic + cherry tomatoes, stir in heavy cream + pasta water, toss with al dente pasta. Sprinkle parmesan + basil—done! Quick, cozy, chef’s kiss #HomemadeComfortFood #QuickRecipes
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Woke up to birds, brewed coffee over fire, hiked to a hidden lake. Nature’s hug u003e any alarm clock. #CampingVibes #WildernessMagic
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