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- Yancey Strickler: Forget hustle culture. Behold the Artist Corporation | TED Talk
Strickler has enabled so many creators with KickStarter and I appreciated his focus on enabling artists. This reminded me a bit of Lessig creating Creative Commons to fix a…
- Ian Bremmer: The next global superpower isn't who you think | TED Talk
I follow Bremmer's newsletter on global politics and I think he has some interesting perspectives. This TED talk highlights the role that technology platforms/companies may have…
- LeeAnn Renninger: The secret to giving great feedback | TED Talk
This video is almost an incredibly condensed version of some trainings that I've taken. It outlines a simple 4-step process for giving feedback. Start with a micro-yes , start the…
- Michael Sandel: The tyranny of merit | TED Talk
Meritocracy has a lot of attractive qualities but I think there is an equal amount of negative too. Recently Mac Lewis shared a strong recommendation to The Tyranny of Merit:…
- Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend | TED Talk | TED.com
Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may…
- Margaret Heffernan: Why it's time to forget the pecking order at work | TED Talk | TED.com
Organizations are often run according to “the superchicken model,” where the value is placed on star employees who outperform others. And yet, this isn’t what drives the most…
- Usman Riaz + Preston Reed: A young guitarist meets his hero | Talk Video | TED.com
Amazing.
- Andy Yen: Think your email's private? Think again | Talk Video | TED.com
Sending an email message is like sending a postcard, says scientist Andy Yen in this thought-provoking talk: Anyone can read it. Yet encryption, the technology that protects the…
- Raffaello D'Andrea: The astounding athletic power of quadcopters
This is absolutely amazing stuff. In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D'Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with…
- Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim
Ridiculously provoking and well done talk on Republic Lost. There is a corruption at the heart of American politics, caused by the dependence of Congressional candidates on…
- Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone?
Turkle's new book looks interesting and I feel a lot of truth in her points in this video. As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle…
- Frank Warren: Half a million secrets
I'm a fan of PostSecret. "Secrets can take many forms -- they can be shocking, or silly, or soulful." Frank Warren, the founder of PostSecret.com, shares some of the half-million…
- Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine?
Atul Gawande may be an alien dropped on the planet with ridiculous powers. I don't know that there is anything he can't do. Gawande for President. Our medical systems are broken.…
- Brian Greene: Is our universe the only universe?
Exceptionally polished talk, even for TED. Fun though. I watch this and wonder if Brian Greene will be proven right. The idea at the end of a night sky dark as all the universe…
- Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers
Good talk that does a very good job of visualizing the problem of tracking and re-marketing online. This is the first example I've seen that hits hard on why this is a problem.…
- Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man
Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be…
- Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff
It may seem that big problems require big solutions, but ad man Rory Sutherland says many flashy, expensive fixes are just obscuring better, simpler answers. To illustrate, he…
- Rory Sutherland: Perspective is everything
Rory Sutherlands TED talks are awesome. All are worth watching. This one is no exception. This talk touches on many topics similar to the Thinking, Fast and Slow book I just read.…
- Renny Gleeson: 404, the story of a page not found
Similar vein to the talk Garrick and I gave on Every HTTP Status code, but much better done. :-) He seemed to talk the point into a pretty philosophical place for the mundane 404…
- Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology
Amazing visualizations of the molecular machines operating in your body right now:
- Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice
Barry Schwartz on the Paradox of Choice
- Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
Greatest TED talk I've seen in ages: This is exactly why I eat organic as much as possible.
- Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity
Great TED talk about copyright . A must see --
- Jacek Utko asks, Can design save the newspaper?
- Erin McKean: Redefining the dictionary
Is the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? When does a made-up word become real? And could you use "synecdochical" in a sentence, please? In this infectiously exuberant…
- TED | Talks | Erin McKean: Redefining the dictionary (video)
Is the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? When does a made-up word become real? And could you use "synecdochical" in a sentence, please? In this infectiously exuberant…
- James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia
In James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life -- the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in…
- Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo
Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with…
- TED | Talks | James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia (video)
In James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life -- the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in…
- TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video)
Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with…