Talks

Talks and presentations I find worth watching, sorted by year.

Ronald Reagan: "Government is the Problem" (1981) — C-SPAN Archives, 1981 Inaugural Address.
Lee Kuan Yew on Leadership: The Harvard Interview (2000) — HarvardCPL.
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) — Stanford. Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Introduction to Bitcoin: what is bitcoin and why does it matter? (2012) — Andreas Antonopoulos. One of the best introductions to Bitcoin ever recorded.
Milton Friedman - The Four Legitimate Functions of Government (2012) — LibertyPen.
How The Economic Machine Works (2013) — Ray Dalio. Economics 101 in 30 minutes: credit, debt cycles and how the economy really works.
Andreas Antonopoulos educates Senate of Canada about Bitcoin (2014) — Bitcoin Embassy. A masterclass on what Bitcoin is and why it matters, delivered to the Canadian Senate.
Competition is for Losers (2014) — Peter Thiel, Stanford CS 183B. Business strategy and monopoly theory from the founder of PayPal and Palantir.
Successful Businesses are Based on Secrets (2014) — Peter Thiel, WIRED. On uniqueness, secrets and why monopoly is the key to successful startups.
Jack Dorsey - Full Interview with Q&A (2015) — Oxford Union. The co-founder of Twitter and CEO of Square on building products, tough decisions and social responsibility.
Working in Series (2015) — Christopher C.M. Lee.
Bitcoin Explained in the Bitcoin Basics Workshop (2016) — Andreas Antonopoulos. The basics of Bitcoin explained in clear terms by one of the best teachers in the space.
Principles For Success (2018) — Ray Dalio. His book Principles distilled into a 30-minute animated mini-series on the life principles that helped him the most.
The Skyscraper as Social Organism (2018) — Ole Scheeren, Middle East Conference.
Is Bitcoin the Future of Money? Peter Schiff vs. Erik Voorhees (2018) — Erik Voorhees, ReasonTV. A debate on whether Bitcoin is the future of money.
William Ackman: Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing in Under an Hour (2019) — Big Think.
Accommodation: Architecture as a Common Framework (2019) — Christopher Lee.
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order (2021) — Ray Dalio. How the rise and fall of empires follows repeating patterns throughout history.
Peter Thiel, Leader of the Rebel Alliance (2022) — Hoover Institution.
Peter Thiel on 'Anti-Anti-Anti-Anti Classical Liberalism' (2023) — Oxford Union. Thiel's contrarian take on political philosophy and the state of liberalism.
Value Props: Create a Product People Will Actually Buy (2023) — Michael Skok, Harvard Innovation Labs.
How Money & Banking Work (& why they're broken today) (2024) — Lyn Alden. A clear explainer on the history and mechanics of money and banking.
Masters vs. Slaves | Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality Explained (2024) — Johnathan Bi. An introductory lecture on the key ideas of Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality.
What you must know before AGI arrives (2024) — Po-Shen Loh, EO. A compilation of his lecture series on education in the AI era.
The Future Of AI, According To Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt (2024) — Eric Schmidt on where AI is heading and what it means for the world.
Broken Money: Why Our Financial System Is Failing Us (2024) — Lyn Alden, Princeton Economics. How our financial system is broken and how we can make it better.
Tesla vs Waymo, Explained (2025) — Maxinomics. The battle for the future of autonomous driving. Two completely opposite strategies where one winning could make the other obsolete.
Software Is Changing (Again) (2025) — Andrej Karpathy, Y Combinator.