Guy Steele's talk, "Growing A Language", is very good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
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#12Rich Hickey's talk on simplicity is a must watch. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy And one of the most useful talks of all time for building organizations is by Ed Catmull (of Pixar) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc
I saw Simple Made Easy live, in person, in Saint Louis (where I live), back in Fall 2011. I remember the experience very well ~ forever changed the trajectory of my personal and professional efforts at software development.
I was so under-exposed to non C-family languages at the time that I asked the guy next to met whether the code used to demo the ideas "was Haskell or something else?" I felt embarrassed at the shocked look on his face; my grand exploration of Clojure (and other functional languages too!) began shortly thereafter. The previous evening, I'd accidentally had dinner with Dr. Gerald Sussman... what a conference, what an experience was Strange Loop 2011!
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#13The Birth & Death of JavaScript.
A talk by Gary Bernhardt.
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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#14Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action - start with Why
https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_insp...
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#15Richard Hamming: You and Your Research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw
(All the recordings from "Intro to The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn" are amazing)
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#16Richard Hamming: You and Your Research https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw (All the recordings from "Intro to The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn" are amazing)
also:
Alan Kay: "OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY
and +1 to anything by bret victor
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#17The mind behind Linux | Linus Torvalds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8NPllzkFhE
I didn't expect to like it. But despite his slight nervousness, his simplicity and his brutal honesty and self-criticism resonated well with me.
Really good, no-nonsense talk. Good watch!
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#18Very surprised it hasn't already been mentioned, but Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture" is fantastic (although not technical):
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#19"7 minutes, 26 seconds, and the fundamental theorem of Agile Software Development", by JB Rainsberger. It's short and straight to the point.
https://vimeo.com/79106557
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#20What Makes Us Uniquely Human? by Erwin McManus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BdgVfhciSw