PickVidsBest Tech pioneers & interviews Videos
The 369 Tech pioneers & interviews videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 0 introductory, 91 intermediate, 272 for a general viewer, and 6 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an interview. What they share is that the guest explains a past choice instead of reciting a glossary. Channels you will keep seeing include Lex Fridman, Computer History Museum, PowerfulJRE.
Reinventing Organizations
Frederic Laloux presents his research on self-managing, purpose-driven organizations, followed by Q&A.
Oculus Connect Keynote: John Carmack
John Carmack's keynote at Oculus Connect 2014 about the Gear VR and development stories from building it.
Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains
JetBrains interviews Zig creator Andrew Kelley about why Zig has no 1.0 after a decade, why the project left GitHub, and why it bans AI contributions.
Surreal Numbers (writing the first book) - Numberphile
A Numberphile interview with Donald Knuth about how he came to write the first book on surreal numbers after a lunch with John Conway.
Here I Stand, at Age 80
Ted Nelson, the originator of hypertext and Project Xanadu, gives a personal account at age 80 of his ideals, his career, and how a poor career plan led to discoveries and adventures.
Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440
A roughly 3.7-hour Lex Fridman podcast with Pieter Levels, the solo developer behind over 40 startups.
Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua | Lex Fridman Podcast #154
Lex Fridman interviews Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb about the interstellar object Oumuamua, aliens and black holes.
Why 90% of Managers Are GARBAGE (The Professional Lie) | Steve Jobs
A short clip of Steve Jobs arguing that the best people are self-managing and that professional managers who cannot do the work add little.
Joe Rogan Experience #1342 - John Carmack
A long Joe Rogan podcast conversation with John Carmack covering his career, work habits, open source, AGI, quantum computing and CPUs.
Elon Musk - CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX | Entrepreneurship | Khan Academy
Sal Khan interviews Elon Musk in a 2013 Khan Academy entrepreneurship series.
Steve Jobs iPhone 2007 Presentation (HD)
The full January 2007 Macworld keynote where Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone.
A Conversation with Bertrand Russell (1952)
A 1952 filmed interview in which Romney Wheeler talks with philosopher Bertrand Russell at his home in Surrey.
1993 interview re: Paul Rand and Steve Jobs
A 1993 interview in which Steve Jobs talks about designer Paul Rand, who created the NeXT logo.
Douglas Crockford: The JSON Saga
Douglas Crockford tells how JSON was discovered rather than invented, and how its simplicity made it a dominant data interchange format.
Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341
A roughly three-hour Lex Fridman podcast conversation with Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python.
He started a computing REVOLUTION—then the shortage hit
Jeff Geerling interviews Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton about the Pi shortage, the RP2040, RISC-V, the Sony investment and the origin of the name.
Using JSLint For Evil
A three-minute clip in which Douglas Crockford explains why he allowed the JSLint reference implementation to be used for evil.
Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #124
A roughly four-and-a-half-hour Lex Fridman podcast conversation with Stephen Wolfram about his Wolfram Physics Project and a fundamental theory of physics, computation, life and the universe.
Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces | Lex Fridman Podcast #186
Lex Fridman interviews Bryan Johnson, founder of Kernel and previously Braintree, about brain-computer interfaces and Kernel's non-invasive brain monitoring hardware.
HandmadeCon 2015 - Pat Wyatt
Pat Wyatt, a veteran game programmer who worked at Blizzard and ArenaNet, speaks at HandmadeCon 2015 in a conversation with Casey Muratori.
Oral History of Dave Cutler Part 1
A Computer History Museum oral history interview with Dave Cutler, covering his youth, early work on operating systems at DuPont and Digital Equipment, and his path toward VMS and Windows NT.
Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, and The Art of Computer Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #62
Lex Fridman interviews Donald Knuth about algorithms, complexity, The Art of Computer Programming, and his work habits.
Thiel: Google has $50B, doesn't innovate
A short CNN clip of Peter Thiel telling Google chairman Eric Schmidt that Google has huge cash reserves and does not know how to invest them.
Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
Lex Fridman interviews mathematician and economist Eric Weinstein about science, mathematics, and society.