So over the past couple months I’ve watched all vidoes on the TED channel on Youtube with over 500,000 views. That’s about 90 videos. Some of them were very informative and interesting. For the most part, though, I was thoroughly disappointed at how many of them were uninteresting. And remarkably, most of the videos I liked didn’t get a ton of views. This is my own subjective opinion, of course, but of the approximately 90 videos, I would be willing to watch the following 11 over again.
My top video is
Philip Zimbardo: The psychology of evil (665,341 views)
The other videos that I thought were worth watching, ranked in the order of views.
Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen (524,289 views)
Lennart Green: Close-up card magic with a twist (629,590 views)
Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! (680,828 views)
Apollo Robbins: The art of misdirection (849,262 views)
Malcolm Gladwell: Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce (785,998 views)
Hans Rosling: Stats that reshape your world-view (1,058,288 views)
Terry Moore: How to tie your shoes (1,147,470 views)
The LXD: In the Internet age, dance evolves … (1,150,444 views)
Raffaello D’Andrea: The astounding athletic power of quadcopters (1,491,868 views)
Cameron Russell: Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model (2,186,707 views)
Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action (2,318,665 views)