success
58:49Why our generals were more successful in World War II than in Korea, Vietnam or Iraq/Afghanistan
2.2M views • 15 years ago
UC Berkeley Events
Thomas Ricks's Nimitz Memorial Lecture at UC Berkeley asks why US generals did better in World War II than in Korea, Vietnam or Iraq and Afghanistan. A central point is the WWII practice of quickly reassigning or relieving underperforming generals.
1:00:06Computer Science - Brian Kernighan on successful language design
332K views • 10 years ago
University of Nottingham
Brian Kernighan gives a talk at the University of Nottingham on how to succeed in language design without really trying. He draws on his experience with awk and other languages.
1:10:181177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD)
8.8M views • 10 years ago
National Capital Area Skeptics (NCAS)
Archaeologist Eric Cline lectures on the Late Bronze Age collapse around 1177 BC, when interconnected Mediterranean empires fell in rapid succession. He discusses the Sea Peoples and the combined causes of the collapse.
13:11Jordan Peterson - Controversial Facts about IQ
2.2M views • 9 years ago
Bite-sized Philosophy
A clip of psychologist Jordan Peterson lecturing on intelligence and IQ, covering how it is defined and its correlation with academic and work success.
1:45:502017 Personality 18: Biology & Traits: Openness/Intelligence/Creativity I
1.5M views • 9 years ago
Jordan B Peterson
A Jordan Peterson university lecture on the Big Five trait openness to experience, covering creativity and intelligence. It explains how IQ is measured, how well it predicts life success, and the Pareto distribution of creative output.