great speeches

a collection of wonderful speeches (many of them commencement speeches)

Failure and Rescue

Gotta give credit to NYC Mayor Eric Adams for this phenomenal speech on Israel. It’s a few minutes that everyone should watch.

Eli Klein

x.com

pphoebe

MLK vibes from nyc mayor in the wake of Hamas attack on Israel

"A Journey on the Information Highway"

Evan Williams jamesclear.com

sari

"2005 Stanford Commencement Address"

Steve Jobs jamesclear.com

sari

Zhang Yiming’s Last Speech: Part I

Kevin Xu interconnect.substack.com

sari

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Wow. Wow. Wow. Incredible powerful message (incredible speech writing)—to those who stumbled on the wrong path and may ruin their future for not knowing the past. The weight of history

Josh Wolfe

x.com

pphoebe

wow. what a speech. what a delivery.

Douglas Murray: What It Means to Choose Life

thefp.com

phoebe

How to Win the Fight for America

Katherine Boyle • 1 highlight

thefp.com

Cover of How to Win the Fight for America

aandrea

Katherine Boyle on American Dynamism

"Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love"

Bill Gurley jamesclear.com

ssari

Love this speech by Bill Gurley - one of the common things across top professionals like Bob Dylan, Danny Meyer, etc was that they studied everything they could find about their field, they were masterful students first.