WatchList

Date: January 1, 2018 Author: Brian Hooper

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TLDR

This post is a currated list of videos and presentations I have compiled during my professional career that I believe are worth watching. They cover a range of topics from including Design, Engineering, Leadership, Technology, and History.

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Creativity

• Building Creative Confidence with David Kelley
• Personalized Learning with Sir Ken Robinson
• School Kills Creativity with Sir Ken Robinson
• Steve Jobs Philosophy with Steve Jobs

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Engineering

• Are We There Yet? with Rich Hickey
• Back to the Future of 1994 with Danny Hillis
• Site Reliability Engineering by Google
• Simply Made Easy with Rich Hickey

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Golang

• Why Golang is Successful with Rob Pike
• Concurrency is not Parallelism with Rob Pike
• Advanced Testing with Go with Mitchell Hashimoto
• Learn Go in 12 Minutes with Jake Wright
• 7 Common Mistakes in Go, and when to avoid them with Steve Francia

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Happiness

• Stumbling upon Happiness with Dan Gilbert
• The Happy Secret to Better Work with Shawn Achor
• The Puzzle of Motivation with Dan Pink

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JavaScript

• JavaScript The Good Parts with Douglas Crockford
• Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years with Douglas Crockford
• Crockford on JavaScript - Chapter 2: And Then There Was JavaScript with Douglas Crockford
• Crockford on JavaScript - Act III: Function the Ultimate with Douglas Crockford
• Crockford on JavaScript - Episode IV: The Metamorphosis of Ajax with Douglas Crockford
• Crockford on JavaScript - Part 5: The End of All Things with Douglas Crockford

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Leadership

• Start with Why by Simon Sinek
• Purple Cow by Seth Godin
• Drive by Daniel Pink
• How Great Leaders Inspire Action with Simon Sinek
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

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Open Source

• 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond
• How to Become a Hacker by Eric Raymond
• Netscape’s Last Year and the rise of Mozilla a Documentary
• Revolution OS a Documentary
• The Mind Behind Linux with Linus Torvalds
• Linus Torvalds on git with Linus Torvalds

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Technology

• Gate & Jobs at All Things Digital, 2007 with Bill Gates & Steve Jobs

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Working

• Building Businesses that Last with Jason Fried
• REWORK by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
• Why Work Doesn’t Happen at Work with Jason Fried