Crowd Control 101:

Ditch the 'does the crowd like me?' mentality.

Adopt the 'do I like the crowd?' mentality.

This mindset shift makes you feel more in control & powerful.

Here are a few more bonus tips for crowd control.

These tips will have you showing the audience that you control the room.

Every audience likes it when the speaker takes charge.

Use these moves in your next speech & dominate the big stage like a superstar!

1. Wait a few seconds before starting

Starting immediately makes you look needy.

The few second wait will builds hype & keeps the control in your favor.

'How long do you typically take?'

I take around 5-7 seconds to build the hype.

Find your sweet spot.

2. Take pauses

Many beginning speakers are terrified of pauses.

They think they will be exposed as a fraud whenever there is silence.

WRONG.

Pauses sound longer to you than it does for the audience.

An audience loves a speaker who pauses rather than a turbo talker.

3. Body Language

Your body is crucial to delivery.

Luckily you always have control over it.

As you begin, your body may become smaller, you will cover your torso more, and will look down.

AVOID.

Chest out, chin up, open palms, strong eye contact & walk with purpose soldier.

If you're a developer who wants to create an info-product or SaaS some day, the best thing you can do now is to build an audience of people who like and trust you.

The best way to do this (in the words of @adamwathan who is amazing at this), is to *be useful on the internet*.

Help people out. Teach them things. Make them more awesome. Eventually, get their email address and send them even more awesomeness.

Blog posts, podcasts, conference talks, open source work: all good. Just be useful. On the internet. Then get emails.

There's nothing quite as valuable as an email list of 1,000 people who know you make good things.

“As a small child , I was very selfish, always grabbing the best for myself.

Slowly, everyone left me and I had no friends. I didn’t think it was my fault and I criticize others.

But my father gave me 3 sentences to help me in life.”

“One day, my father cooked 2 bowls of noodles and put them on the table. One had an egg on top while the other bowl had none on top.

Then he asked me to choose a bowl of noodles .

Because eggs were hard to come by those days.... I chose the bowl with egg!.”

“I was congratulating myself on my wise choice/decision and decided to wallop the egg....to my surprise as my father's bowl of noodles had TWO eggs at the bottom of his bowl beneath the noodles!

With much regret, I scolded myself for being too hasty in my decision.”

“My father smiled and taught me to remember that what your eyes see may not be true.

He added that If you make a habit of taking advantage of people, you will end up losing.”

“The next day, my father again cooked 2 bowls of noodles: one bowl with an egg on top and the other bowl with no egg on top.

Again, he asked to choose the bowl I wanted.

This time I felt smarter so I chose the bowl without any egg on top.”

I don't care one way or another about the Elizabeth Warren DNA kerfuffle; it's silliness bred of Trump's lunacy, not a serious political matter.

But—*but*—the blowback on Warren is useful as a reminder that facts, science, and really truth of any kind is now anathema to the GOP.

2/ If you're online trying to convince a Trumpist of *anything*—I mean *anything*—stop right now.

The Trumpists' reaction to Warren's DNA test—a cacophony of fact-free insanity about race and DNA and even just *the bare facts of what happened*—tells you you're wasting your time.

3/ I don't see the point in baiting Trumpists, or insulting them, or calling attention to their madness on a daily basis. These people are fundamentally unserious about truth, discourse, and anything resembling a community of ideas. So:

1) Ignore them—completely.
2) Vote—always.

4/ I don't always live up to that standard, but I'm *trying*. I'm *trying* to ignore as beneath dialogic significance those who say "most people" have Native American ancestry, or who can't read basic studies to understand Warren's DNA test, or who say Trump never made a bet, &c.

5/ Trump wants to call Warren "Pocahontas" because he's a racist, wants to appeal to racists, and his cult-like following so ignores *everything bad he does* that they think that, had she lied—she didn't—*this* (this!) would be worse than anything Trump has done.

*Process that*.

Today's @bopinion post is about Nigeria. I expect its conclusions will not come as a surprise to most Nigerians, but it's good for Americans to be thinking about Nigeria and its problems.

Nigeria is very dependent on oil, for its government revenues and for its foreign exchange earnings.

When oil prices fall, Nigeria's people suffer.

And like many oil-rich countries, the government tries to cushion the blow by subsidizing fuel (this is more expensive than you might think, since Nigeria can't refine all of its own oil).

When oil prices rise again, this puts a strain on govt. budgets.

Meanwhile, fewer and fewer Nigerians have jobs, which could portend a rise in social instability.

To escape the doom spiral of the Resource Curse, Nigeria should look to a country that seems to have beaten the curse:

Wolfe plead guilty yesterday. He got a sweetheart deal. What or who did he give up to get it?

The OPR report with documentary proof McCabe was involved in a illegal leak about Gen. Flynn & POTUS was released yesterday.

I expect more stuff dropping this week.

Democrats have October Surprises planned?

Well so does Trump.

The next 3 weeks are going to be lit.

The gap between the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian Sea, in modern-day Azerbaijan, has been an important migration route for early humans (and pre-humans) for hundreds of thousands of years, as evidenced by the prehistoric rock drawings at Gobustan, south of Baku. 🇦🇿

Rock drawing of a prehistoric hunter with a bow, in the site museum at Gobustan, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿

The prehistoric rock drawings span many different eras and are located near the top of a rocky outcropping in a landscape dominated by surrounding mud volcanos. Gobustan, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿

The rock drawings depict people hunting and dancing, as well as local animals and even boats - which may represent fishing or symbolize either earthly or spiritual journeys. Gobustan, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿

The now-arid landscape at Gobustan, south of Baku, was at various times (especially during recurring Ice Ages) a lot more lush, with juniper and pistachio trees, pomegranates and wild cherries. 🇦🇿

Po #DebataWarszawska wizerunek głównych kandydatów się nie zmienił, ale zaczęto trochę więcej pisać o pozostałych, np. o @Krzekotowska lub @PiotrIkonowicz1. Więcej w mojej aplikacji: https://t.co/2kpbqqaogT Przepraszam za rodzaj męski przy kandydatkach. Będzie to poprawione.

A tak wygląda mediana nowych wyświetleń filmów na youtube. Skok @JustynaGlusman

Spotu nie wyświetlono tyle razy, aby to tłumaczyło wynik (w tej chwili 1036 wyświetleń). Większe znaczenie mają filmy z debaty.

According to @RadioZET_NEWS PKN Orlen (major Polish oil refiner and petrol retailer) is considering entering F1 as a fuel sponsor (supplier) and personal sponsor of Robert Kubica. #F1

Yesterday Kubica was at Orlen's headquarters and met with Polish Prime Minister. #F1

Confession: I haven't the slightest interest in my genetic ancestry or where my ancestors came from or what they did.

I mean, my dad's family came from Lithuania. They changed their name from Kuznets in 1905. At some point they were blacksmiths. My mom's family came from Halychyna in Ukraine. I have no idea what they did. That's about all I know.

Oh, I do know that pretty much all of my extended family who stayed in Europe got wiped out by the Nazis.

I like to think that my ancestors were nothing and nobody. Random boring peasants with no special talents or wealth.

Except for Genghis Khan, of course. But he's everyone's ancestor.

The best thing about this approach is that I don't have anything to live up to. ;-)

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"The One That Didn't Work Out." Startup founders, you know what I mean: We spend years on a product - starting it from scratch, recruiting friends, getting it off the ground. We think we'll spend years on this. This is the one. We tell that to ourselves, investors, and friends

We celebrate all the milestones we're supposed to. The first office. First check in. The product launch. Fun emails from the first users. An important hire. Team dinners. These are wonderful, great memories!

When it's time to raise money, we tell potential investors that this is it. We're gonna work on this for years, because we believe. And we do! But that's not what happens...

There's a messy second year. Traction's not as good as what we want. Or maybe new users are showing up, but retention sucks. Some of the key hires leave. Fundraising isn't as easy as it should be. Monetization is slow. It's tough

When things get hard, it's easy to go into hermit mode. Don't go to tech events, because people will ask how things are going, and you don't want to pretend it's great. Because it's not. Easier to stay at home and watch Netflix

Dating someone who knows you're just joking on Twitter is nice but there are lines that should never be crossed. Flirting on the TL and expecting your partner to know you're just "joking" is plain disrespect. Pls.

Just like that thing where y'all overly nice in the comments sections of people's pictures or entertaining people you know damn well want you...ngcoske kuthwe andikwazi umdlala uTwitter but nah, that shit isn't right bethuna. Sanugezela abanye abantwana. 🤷🏾🤷🏾

in honour of bohemian rhapsody coming out in less than a month, I wanted to do a thread of the most iconic things freddie mercury did so y'all can get to know him

although most people know about him and queen's music, y'all dont know how iconic he actually was, so before stan twitter falls for rami's freddie for like a week (rami u deserve better), let's appreciate the original hbic

ok so,
farrokh bulsara (later changed to freddie mercury ofc) was born in 1946, in zanzibar, he was born with parsi decent and grew up in both zanzibar and india before later moving to england with his family

he was a singer, songwriter and record producer, and obviously the lead vocalist of queen

he had an estimated four - octave vocal range and is considered one of the greatest vocalists of all time, especially due to his unique tone and his ability to change his style from line to line ((your faves could nEVER))

Andy McCabe has some explaining to do.

Andrew McCabe was reported to the FBI’s Office of Public Affairs for making an unauthorized leak of classified info to the media about @GenFlynn in early February 2017.

If you’ve wondered exactly who it was who leaked the classified info from that intelligence report on @GenFlynn’s phone calls with then-Russian ambassador Kislyak to the media, you are right now seeing a huge honking clue who it was.

To those responding to this info by sneering "Nothing's gonna happen":

Up.

Your.

Game.

You just might be too stupid to be following me.

The then-Deputy Director of the FBI get's caught targeting @GenFlynn with an illegal leak so he can 'investigated' by Peter Strzok?

Now that we know it was McCabe who set up Flynn for a fake 'perjury' investigation by his pet attack dog, Peter Strzok, the next name that's going to surface is...Joseph Pientka.

My favorite example of how informationally toxic YouTube's algorithm is this:

Imagine you're high school freshman and got a school assignment about the Federal Reserve.

You watch videos on YouTube all the time, so you go home and put "Federal Reserve" into YouTube's search bar.

This is the first video that comes up (1.6 million views)

It is, perhaps not surprisingly, conspiratorial quackery.

Once you view that, the algorithm also then suggests this on the sidebar:

"What You're Not Supposed to Know About America's Founding" (863,00

It's a John Birch Society lecture delivered by someone who says he "infiltrated Marxist organizations as a young man" and that Marxists infiltrate the media.

He then delivers a convoluted lecture about the Illuminati being behind both both global communism and the abolitionists. Charles Sumner and Horace Greeley were communists, and the Civil War was a communist/Illuminati plot, started by communist terrorist John Brown.

1/ There is so much idol worship in Silicon Valley re: successful founders and investors. But there is a common denominator for success which is rarely addressed: Privilege

I want to confess my own journey of success, as it relates to Privilege.

2/ My Korean parents were poor when they arrived to the US, seeking opportunities for their future kids. Upon immigrating, my father Germanized the spelling of our last name (B-A-H-N), with the rational that a white-sounding last name would open up opportunities. I think it has.

3/ By the time I was born, my parents were doing very well. I never suffered their trauma of poverty. I lived in a big house and went to the best public schools. As a kid, I never felt like I was missing any resources.

4/ Partly because of my abundant resources, I was able to attend Stanford. Mom and Dad paid for that too, and I graduated with no debt. They even bought me a Honda after completing grad school! (I know, spoiled brat)

5/ With my family safety net, great education, zero debt, economy car, and abundance mindset--I went forth into the world ready to take huge risks. Taking risks was easy and natural, because I COULD AFFORD IT. Success followed.