I started a mid-year resolution in 2010 to listen to a TED talk at the start of each work day. I decided to start this with a colleague at a conference on Friday and lo-and-behold, on Day 1, the most recently published TED Talk was by someone I used to work with. I don’t manage to listen every day but here is the record of those talks I’ve listened to, both TED and otherwise.
| Date | TED Talk Speaker | Topic | Favorite? |
| 28 June | Hillel Cooperman | Lego for Grownups (6 mins) | |
| 29 June | Peter Tyack | The Intriguing Sound of Marine Animals | |
| 30 June | Dan Gilbert | Why Are We Happy? | Y |
| 1 July | Jill Bolte Taylor | Stroke of Insight | |
| 5 July | Bill Gates | Mosquitoes, Malaria and Education | Y |
| 6 July | Stefan Sagmeister | On What He Has Learned (6 mins) | |
| 7 July | Steve Jobs | How to Live Before You Die | Y |
| 8 July | Ellen Gustafson | Obesity + Hunger = 1 global food issue | |
| 12 July | Becky Blanton | The Year I was Homeless | |
| 13 July | John Underkoffler | Points to the Future of UI | |
| 14 July | Hans Rosling | On Global Population Growth | Y |
| 15 July | Daniel Kahneman | The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory | |
| 26 July | The LXD | In the Internet Age, Dance Evolves … | |
| 28 July | Graham Hill | Why I’m a Weekday Vegetarian | |
| 29 July | David Hoffman | On Losing Everything (6 mins) | |
| 2 August | Joseph Lekuton | Tells a Parable for Kenya (6 mins) | Y |
| 3 August | Lewis Pugh | Lewis Pugh’s Mind-Shifting Mt. Everest Swim | |
| 11 August | Eddi Reader | Sings “Kiteflyer’s Hill” | |
| 12 August | Simon Sinek | How Great Leaders Inspire Action | |
| 9 Sept | Ken Robinson | Says Schools Kill Creativity | Y |
| 10 Sept | Itay Talgam | Lead Like the Great Conductors | Y |
| 11 Sept | Derek Sivers | Keep Your Goals to Yourself (3mins) | |
| 12 Sept | Laura Trice | Suggests We All Say Thank You (3 mins) | |
| 20 Sept | Jonathan Klein | Photos that Changed the World | Y |
| 23 Sept | Steven Johnson | Where Good Ideas Come From | Y |
| 24 Sept | Julian Treasure | Shh! Sound Health in 8 Steps (7 mins) | |
| 27 Sept | Christopher deCharms | Looks Inside the Brain ( 4 mins) | |
| 30 Sept | Hans Rosling | Shows the Best Stats You’ve Ever Seen | Y |
| 14 Oct | Melinda French Gates | What Non-Profits Can Learn from Coca-Cola | Y |
| 24 Nov | Dan Pink | The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us (not TED but good 10 min video) | Y |
| 2 Dec | William Ury | The Walk From "No" to "Yes" | Y |
| 31 Dec | Raul Midon | Plays "Peace on Earth" | |
| 10 Jan | Derek Sivers | How to Start a Movement | |
| 12 Jan | Neil Pasricha | The 3 A’s of Awesome | Y |
| 12 Jan | Jody Williams | A Realistic Vision for World Peace | |
| 14 Jan | Barry Schwartz | Using our Practical Wisdom | |
| 14 Jan | Diana Laufenberg | How to Learn? From Mistakes | |
| 17 Jan | Hanna Rosin | New Data on the Rise of Women | |
| 17 Jan | Deborah Rhodes | A Tool that finds 3x More Breast Tumors, (and why it’s not available to you) | |
| 25 Jan | Jeff Hawkins | How Brain Science Will Change Computing | |
| 25 Jan | Eric Berlow | How Complexity Leads to Simplicity | |
| 1 Mar | William Kamkwamba | On Building a Windmill | Y |
| 1 Mar | Ben Saunders | Skis to the North Pole | Y |
| 1 Mar | Richard St. John | 8 Secrets of Success | Y |
| 4 Apr | Richard Maddocks | ONTPLOOING (not TED but great 6 min) | |
| 8 June | Ron Gutman | The Hidden Power of Smiling | |
| 11 Aug | Sheryl Sandberg | Why we Have Too Few Women Leaders | Y |
| 29 Nov | Brene Brown | The Power of Vulnerability | Y |
| 29 Nov | Stefan Sagmeister | 7 Rules for Making More Happiness | |
| 29 Nov | Annie Murphy Paul | What We Learn Before We’re Born | |
| 16 Jan | Tyler Cowen | Be Suspicious of Stories | |
| 26 Jan | Sebastian Wernicke | 1000 TEDTalks, 6 words | |
| 10 Feb | Neil Burgess | How your Brain Tells You Where You Are | |
| 8 April | Sherry Turkle | Connected, but Alone? | |
| 18 April | Tim Ferriss | Smash fear, learn anything | Y |
| 1 May | Gary Hamel | Reinventing the Technology of Human Accomplishment | |
| 23 Oct | Richard Banks | Why People Film on their Phone in Concerts (not TED but great 11 mins) | Y |
| 8 Apr | Eric Whitacre | Virtual Choir Live | |
| 12 June | Andrew Solomon | Love, no matter what | |
| 3 Dec | David Steindl-Rast | Want to be happy? Be grateful | |
| 2 April | Pico Iyer | Where is home? | Y |
| 2 April | The Sagan Series | The Pale Blue Dot (not TED, good 3 mins) | |
| 15 April | Shawn Achor | The happy secret to better work | |
| 24 Nov | Derek Sivers | Weird, or just different? | |
| 25 Nov | Kare Anderson | Be an Opportunity Maker | |
| 6 Jan | Carol Dweck | The power of believing you can improve | |
| 13 Jan | Larry Smith | Why you will fail to have a good career | |
| 21 Jan | Various | The Year in Ideas | |
| 21 Jan | Kate Matsudaira | My favorite productivity tips (not TED but useful video from my fave kickstarter) | |
| 22 Jan | Barry Schwartz | The paradox of choice | Y |
| 22 Jan | Dan Ariely | Are we in control of our own decisions? | Y |
| 26 Jan | Dave Coplin | Re-Imagining Work (not TED, but great) | Y |
| 5 Feb | Brian Welle | Unconscious Bias (again, not TED but really great) | Y |
| 24 Feb | Roselinde Torres | What it takes to be a great leader | Y |
| 23 Mar | Lizzie Velasquez | How do you define yourself? | |
| 19 Jan | Margaret Heffernan |
Why it’s time to forget the pecking order at work |
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Me & My All 