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, including some talks of a similar format that are not from TED.  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.

• Shonda Rhimes: My year of saying yes to everything
• Melvin Russell: I love being a police officer, but we need reform
• Ted Harford: How frustration can make us more creative
• Achenyo Idachaba: How I turned a deadly plant into a thriving business
• Judson Brewer: A simple way to break a bad habit
• Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation
• Kang Lee: Can you really tell if a kid is lying?
• Suzanne Simard: How trees talk to each other
• Tom Hulme: What can we learn from shortcuts?
• Julia Galef: Why you think you’re right – even if you’re wrong
• Sal Khan: Let’s teach for mastery – not test scores
• Alice Rawsthorn: Pirates, nurses and other rebel designers
• Seema Bansal: How to fix a broken education system… without any more money
• Todd Rose: They myth of average
• Adam Grant: The surprising habits of original thinkers
• Casey Gerald: The gospel of doubt
• Dustin Yellin: A journey through the mind of an artist
• Liz Danzico: The fringe benefits of quitting
• Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong
• Jarrett J. Krosoczka: How a boy became an artist
• Mac Barnett: Why a good book is a secret door
• Willaim Ury: The walk from “no” to “yes”
• Sally Kohn: Let’s try emotional correctness
• Sally Kohn: Don’t like clickbait? Don’t click
• Kenneth Cukier: Big data is better data
• Sheryl Sandberg: So we leaned in… now what?
• Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders
• Meaghan Ramsey: Why thinking you’re ugly is bad for you
• Matthew O’Reilly: “Am I dying?” The honest answer
• Heather Barnett: What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime
• Lemon Anderson: Please don’t take my Air Jordans
• Clint Smith: The danger of silence
• Linsey Pollak: Carrot clarinet
• Shih Chieh Huang: Sculptures that’d be at home in the deep sea
• David Kwong: Two nerdy obsessions meet – and it’s magic
• Charles Leadbeater: The era of open innovation
• Joi Ito: Want to innovate? Become a “now-ist”
• Clifford Stoll: The call to learn
• Anne-Marie Slaughter: Can we “have it all”?
• Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all
• Keren Elazari: Hackers: the Internet’s immune system
• Lorrie Faith Cranon: What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?
• Ruth Chang: How to make hard choices
• Anne Curzan: What makes a word “real”?
• Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space
• Del Harvey: The strangeness of scale at Twitter
• Christopher Emdin: Teach teachers how to create magic
• Richard St. John: 8 secrets of success
• Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do
• Jennifer Senior: For parents, happiness is a very high bar
• Sarah Lewis: Celebrate the near win
• David Epstein: Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?
• Randall Munroe: Comics that ask “what if?”
• Stanley McChrystal: The military case for sharing knowledge
• Aparno Rao: Art that craves your attention
• McKenna Pope: Want to be an activist? Start with your toys
• Tina Roth Eisenberg: Trust breeds magic
• Niels Diffrient: Rethinking the way we sit down
• Esther Gokhale: FInd your primal posture and sit without back pain
• Diana Nyad: Never Give Up
• Paul Piff: Does money make you mean?
• Chris Downey: Design with the blind in mind
• Allessandro Acquisti:  Why privacy matters
• Jeff Speck:  The walkable city
• Amy Webb:  How I hacked online dating
• Onara O’Neil: What we don’t understand about trust
• Apollo Robbins: The art of misdirection
• Frank Chimero: Do things the long, stupid, hard way
• Margaret Heffernan: The dangers of “willful blindness”
• Gavin Pretor-Pinnor:  Cloudy with a chance of joy
• 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
• 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