Another year of many TED Talks has passed by. Just like last year, I list here my favorite talks split into several categories. For each I imposed on myself to limit the amounts of talks to one or two. This was a rather hard task, as the talks visibly (and audibly, for that matter) improved over the past years.
Brilliant: Willie Smits restores a rainforest
Insightful: Paula Scher: Great design is serious (not solemn)
Entertaining: Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man
Hands-on:
Several of this year’s talks came as a pleasant surprise. For this reason I added another category to my list: the surprising one. This year it features two talkssmall note:
Surprising:
small note Both talks surprised me in a very pleasant way, as I did not expect the speakers to deliver in the way they did. I discovered with this occasion that, in a way, I fell into the trap of the single story described so vividly by Chimamanda Adichie (even if the talk of Chimamanda Adichie did not quite make it in my above list, I still felt compelled to mention it somehow)