I’m trying to be helpful and listing some of the best videos on YouTube recommended by others, sort them by category and link to them. 🙂
Inspired by Patrick OShaughnessy’s tweet. What’s the best YouTube video you’ve ever seen?
All links are to YouTube unless mentioned otherwise. Here’s a YouTube playlist with all the videos. Hope it’s useful!
Science & Tech
- Electron Orbitals – s,p & d
- Emergence – How Stupid Things Become Smart Together
- Finance Lesson 2 by Martin Shkreli Income Statements, Balance Sheets, Present Value Discounting
- Movie trader
- The Egg – A Short Story
- the logistic map
- “The Falcon has landed” | Recap of Falcon 9 launch and landing
- The Full Sagan Series 1-9 HD
- The Most Astounding Fact – Neil deGrasse Tyson
- THE SAGAN SERIES – The Frontier Is Everywhere
- TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time
- TRUE Limits Of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross
Economics, Investing & Entrepreneurship
- How The Economic Machine Works
- How to Build Products Users Love with Kevin Hale
- It’s Class Warfare – The Poor (and the rest of us) Have Lost
- Lux Annual Dinner Talk
- Mansa Musa, one of the wealthiest people who ever lived
- Morgan Housel on What Other Industries Teach Us About Investing
- Taking on the Challenge: Jeffrey Bezos
- The Economics of Airline Class
- Tiktok, Emergent Creativity, The Limits of Social Graphs
- Tren Griffin, A Dozen Reasons Why Missionaries Build Better Businesses
- What Works on Wall Street | Jim O’Shaughnessy | Talks at Google
Behavioural
- Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgement
- First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
- The Rules for Rulers
Music
- Bill Evans in Helsinki (1970 Live Video)
- Bruce Springsteen – Live At Passaic
- Childish Gambino’s Epic Freestyle on HOT97 for Rosenberg
- Dust in a Baggie
- Flight Of The Conchords Business Time
- Les Miserables 10th anniversary concert
- Masterclass Pharrell Williams Maggie Rogers
- Metallica – Enter Sandman Live Moscow 1991
- Mufasa – its friday then
- Paul Potts singing Nessun Dorma
- Queen – Live Aid Performance (1985)
- Snow Patrol – Run (Live @ Oxegen 2009)
- Stand By Me | Playing For Change
- Steve Gadd & Ralph MacDonald Drum Solo
- Stevie Nicks – Wild Heart – Live Demo – 1981
- Stevie Ray Vaughan Voodoo Child Live In Nashville
- Tame Impala – Half Full Glass Of Wine [LIVE @ Reading Festival 2013]
- The Kiffness – Ievan Polkka ft. Bilal Göregen (Club Remix)
- The Legendary NYC A-Train Sax Battle
- The Lonely Island – I’m On A Boat
- Three random guys sing together
- VERY Unusual instrument!
- What Makes This Song Great? Ep. 3 Steely Dan
- Wintergatan – Marble Machine
Life, Motivation, and Self Improvement
- BOOKSTORES: How to Read More Books in the Golden Age of Content
- Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle
- Dwayne Johnson – The Wake Up Call
- Every Person Is One Choice Away From Everything Changing
- Jocko Motivation “GOOD”
- make something beautiful before you are dead
- My philosophy for a happy life | Sam Berns
- OSHO: With Meditation Life Will Be a Sheer Joy
- RULE YOURSELF
- Show Up Every Day – (David Goggins)
- STOP BEING WEAK | David Goggins
- This Is Water – David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech
- University of Texas at Austin 2014 Commencement Address – Admiral William H. McRaven
- What’s the Meaning of Life? | Joe Rogan and Naval Ravikant
- YOU OWE YOU
Comedy/Memes
- Auditions for Kung Fu movie
- Boom Goes the Dynamite
- Career Day – SNL
- Concrete Buffer Gone Wild
- golden balls. the weirdest split or steal ever
- Gorilla Dancing to “Maniac” in Pool
- Grape lady falls!
- JK Wedding Entrance Dance
- Leeroy Jenkins
- Lie Detector
- Monkey Smells Finger and Falls Out of Tree
- Okay Guy
- Old man screaming
- Papyrus – SNL
- PETE WEBER GOD DAMMIT I DID IT WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE
- Rob Stone vs. NMSU’s Chile Peppers
- Top Soccer Shootout Ever With Scott Sterling
- Weather Boi
- Zombie Kid Likes Turtles
Pop Culture
- Fabio Best Moments (Survivor)
- MY FIRST VLOG (Casey Neistat)
- Nardwuar vs. Snoop Dogg (2002)
- Star Wars SC 38 Reimagined
- What was Gondor’s War Strategy? | Lord of the Rings Lore
Documentaries / Short Films
- Episode 1: Salad Mug – DYNAMO DREAM
- How To Be Creative: How an Artist Turns Pro
- HUMANKIND (see the world in 4 minutes)
- “I, Pet Goat II” by – Heliofant
- IN-SHADOW – A Modern Odyssey
- Into Patagonia with Dakota Jones
- The Century of the Self – Part 1: “Happiness Machines”
- The Fallen of World War II
Sport
- Golf Cart Plows Into Coach/Reporters at Cowboy Stadium!
- J Mac – A Hoop Dream
- Jim Valvano’s ESPY Speech (1993)
- Michael Jordan: “He never asked me to do something that he didn’t f***ing do”
Speeches and Ted Talks
- Alan Watts – The Beauty of Nothingness
- David Deutsch: Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars
- Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson
- Hackschooling makes me happy
- How to speak so that people want to listen | Julian Treasure
- The Ultimate Final – Howard G. Hendricks
Misc
- Christian the Lion reunited with upbringers
- CNC Lathe – Mass Production Turning
- Felix Baumgartner Space Jump World Record
- Ferrari 312 PB replica scale model
- Iguana chased by killer snakes
- It’s Hard to be a God..!!!
- KOLD – My Best Drone Clips 2019
- On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint
- Oscars: Behind the Scenes in the TV truck
- Prison Escapee Convinces Cop He is Actually a Jogger
- Rep. Elijah Cummings’ First House Floor Speech
- Where the Hell is Matt? 2008
- Working Actor Now Homeless in Los Angeles
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