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Not an earth shattering talk or anything (and the title isn't super accurate) but the idea and message that is being presented is something I think people in our world need to be reminded of.
Mark Fisher's talk about how capitalism makes it seem like the only game in town [0] David Pearce on abolishing suffering [1] Jurgen Schmidhuber "Universal AI and a formal theory of fun" [2] Slavoj Žižek on "signs from the future" - also ties into [0] a bit because at one point he mentions how excess capital was found to actually reduce the efficiency of certain creative tasks [3] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…
- Building the minimum Badass User (make your users awesome) by Kathy Sierra: https://vimeo.com/54469442
- Start with the Why? by Simon Sinek (then How? and finally What?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPYeCltXpxw
- Good design doesn't sell itself by Mike Monteiro: https://vimeo.com/121082134
Guy Steele's talk, "Growing A Language", is very good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
Guy Steele's talk, "Growing A Language", is very good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
Mike Monteiro on the importance of a contract: "Fuck you, pay me." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3RJhoqgK8
Got him to admit to me that he exaggerates for "effect" in the talk. Personally, I see "exaggerating for effect" as dishonest. Manipulating facts in order to generate a response is manipulation.
May be this question's answers help you - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637239
Very surprised it hasn't already been mentioned, but Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture" is fantastic (although not technical): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo