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2:58First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
8.8M views • 16 years ago
Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers annotates a short clip of a lone dancer at a festival, showing how a first follower turns a ridiculous act into a movement. He draws out lessons about leadership and making it easy to follow.
6:59The Problem With Facebook
3.1M views • 12 years ago
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Veritasium's Derek Muller argues that Facebook's business model works against pages and creators, because it charges them to reach the audiences they built. He explains how filtering and paid promotion undermine the value of likes.
16:01Mars Helicopter (before it went to Mars)
6.2M views • 7 years ago
Veritasium
Veritasium's Derek Muller visits NASA JPL to see the Mars helicopter Ingenuity before it was mounted on the rover. He explains how it can fly in Mars's thin atmosphere with large, fast-spinning contra-rotating rotors and low mass, and covers power and cold.
10:33Testing if 60 minutes of silence drives you crazy
32.8M views • 12 years ago
Veritasium
Veritasium's Derek Muller spends an hour in a silent, dark anechoic chamber at BYU to test the claim that 45 minutes is the most anyone can bear. He reports on his experience and other people's reactions.