TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Talks are engaging, informative, and inspiring. By request, I am compiling a list of talks that I have listened to and enjoyed. I don’t necessarily agree with the ideas expressed within, but I did enjoy listening. They are listed in reverse chronological order of how I listened to them.
- Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard!
- Mark Shaw: One very dry demo
- Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work?
- Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion
- Ramsey Musallarm: 3 rules to spark learning
- Geoffrey Canada: Our failing schools. Enough is enough!
- Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit
- Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s Death Valley
- Nilofer Merchant: Got a meeting? Take a walk
- John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
- Amanda Palmer: The art of asking
- Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids
- Edi Rama: Take back your city with paint
- Cameron Russell: Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model.
- Tyler Shields Speaks on Getting Attention as a Photographer (not from TED)
- Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking
- Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help somebody? Shut up and listen!
- Amos Winter: The cheap all-terrain wheelchair
- Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see.
- Julie Burstein: 4 lessons in creativity
- Tim Leberecht: 3 ways to (usefully) lose control of your brand
- Scott Fraser: Why eyewitnesses get it wrong
- Timothy Prestero: Design for people, not awards
- Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test
- Kirby Ferguson: Embrace the remix
- Rames Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second
- Neil Harbisson: I listen to color
- Daphne Koller: What we’re learning from online education
- Rodney Mullen: Pop an ollie an innovate!
- Tavi Gevinson: A teen just trying to figure it out
- Tracy Chevalier: Finding the story inside the painting
- Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching
- Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel
- Dan Dennett: The illusion of our consciousness
- Dan Dennett: Cuts, sexy, sweet, funny
- Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?
- David Birch: Identity without a name
- Ivan Oransky: Are we over-medicalized?
- David R Dow: Lessons from death row inmates
- John Hockenberry: We are all designers
- Sebastian Deterding: What your designs say about you
- David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence
- Tali Sharot: The optimism bias
- Renny Gleeson on antisocial phone tricks
- Renny Gleeson: 404, the story of a page not found
- Rory Sutherland: Perspective is everything
- Gary Kovacs: Tracking the Trackers
- Nancy Lublin: Texting that saves lives
- Michael Norton: How to buy happiness
- Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter
- Shlomo Benartzi: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow
- Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work
- Erik Johannson: Impossible photography
- A.J. Jacobs: How healthy living nearly killed me
- Daniel Goldstein: The battle between your present and future self
- Stefon Harris: There are no mistakes on the bandstand
- Luis von Ahn: Massive scale online collaboration
- Annie Murphy Paul: What we learn before we’re born
- Joe Sabia: The technology of storytelling
- Damon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison
- Ben Dunlap talks about a passionate life
- Robin Ince: Science versus wonder?
- Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other’s minds
- Paul Zak: Trust, morality – and oxytocin
- Yves Behar on designing objects that tell stories
- Seth Godin on standing out
- Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom
- Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce
- Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing
- Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?
- Gever Tulley teaches life lessons through teaching
- Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career
- Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong
- Susan Cain: The power of introverts
- Carl Honore praises slowness
- Dale Dougherty: We are makers
- Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice
- Adam Savage: How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries
- Sherry Turkle: Connected but alone?
- Derek Sivers: How to start a movement
- Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
- Steve Jobs: How to live before you die
- Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously
- Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity
- Daniel Schnitzer: Inventing is the easy part
- Amy Tan on creativity
