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Productivity & self-improvement Videos Recommended on Hacker News (95)

Productivity & self-improvement is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 95 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2007 and 2026 — 391 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Self-improvement: productivity systems, habits, focus, time management, learning skills, career advice, motivation, daily routines, deep work, life advice, commencement speeches.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on How to Speak: “drop what you're doing and watch it now” — an HN commenter, 2020.

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16 mo on HN

How to Speak

MIT OpenCourseWare
17 HN recommender · 2020–2025
11 mo on HN

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

JoshuaG
13 HN recommender · 2007–2015
12 mo on HN

Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Carnegie Mellon University
12 HN recommender · 2008–2023
10 mo on HN

Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction

Andrew Huberman
12 HN recommender · 2021–2024
11 mo on HN

Music and Life - Alan Watts

seandulac
11 HN recommender · 2010–2022
10 mo on HN

Hamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995)

securitylectures
11 HN recommender · 2012–2023
11 mo on HN

Hammock Driven Development - Rich Hickey

ClojureTV
12 HN recommender · 2014–2024
10 mo on HN

Marty Lobdell - Study Less Study Smart

Pierce College District WA
6 HN recommender · 2015–2024
8 mo on HN

You Need a Theme, Not a Goal

CGP Grey
10 HN recommender · 2020–2025
9 mo on HN

Mike Monteiro: F*ck You, Pay Me

CreativeMornings HQ
12 HN recommender · 2015–2026
9 mo on HN

Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn

Google
11 HN recommender · 2009–2017
8 mo on HN

Your Brain Thinks Your Whole Home Is One Room

CGP Grey
17 HN recommender · 2020–2022
8 mo on HN

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

Stanford
9 HN recommender · 2009–2023
8 mo on HN

The 7 Habits of Highly Miserable People

CGP Grey
11 HN recommender · 2017–2026
7 mo on HN

Ira Glass on Storytelling 3

warphotography
7 HN recommender · 2018–2026
7 mo on HN

NVC Marshall Rosenberg - San Francisco Workshop - FULL ENGLISH SUBTITLES TRANSCRIPTION

Centrum Nadania
6 HN recommender · 2019–2026
6 mo on HN

LEADERSHIP LAB: Writing Beyond the Academy 1.23.15

UChicago Social Sciences
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
6 mo on HN

Why Is It So Hard to Do Something That Should Be Easy? (Wall of Awful pt. 1)

How to ADHD
6 HN recommender · 2020–2022
6 mo on HN

Steve Jobs Secrets of Life

Silicon Valley Historical Association
6 HN recommender · 2012–2024
6 mo on HN

7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0

GoogleTalksArchive
5 HN recommender · 2013–2023
5 mo on HN

How to sound smart in your TEDx Talk | Will Stephen | TEDxNewYork

TEDx Talks
6 HN recommender · 2015–2024
6 mo on HN

Bryan Cranston's Advice to Aspiring Actors

Oscars
5 HN recommender · 2015–2022
6 mo on HN

The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything | Josh Kaufman | TEDxCSU

TEDx Talks
5 HN recommender · 2014–2024
6 mo on HN

You Suck at Excel - Joel Spolsky (Reupload)

Cool Bug Facts
7 HN recommender · 2024–2026
5 mo on HN

Emacs Org-mode - a system for note-taking and project planning

Google TechTalks
5 HN recommender · 2009–2024
5 mo on HN

Randy Pausch Lecture: Time Management

Carnegie Mellon University
4 HN recommender · 2009–2021
4 mo on HN

Do Nothing- a message of motivation from Self-help Singh- (un) motivational speaker and life coach

Masood Boomgaard
4 HN recommender · 2022–2024
4 mo on HN

Keep your goals to yourself | Derek Sivers

TED
2 HN recommender · 2010–2023
5 mo on HN

Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator | Tim Urban | TED

TED
5 HN recommender · 2016–2023
5 mo on HN

Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework

Micky Thompson
5 HN recommender · 2010–2024
4 mo on HN

Emacs For Writers

thoughtbot
3 HN recommender · 2016–2024
4 mo on HN

This Is Water by David Foster Wallace Full Speech

Joe Mita
5 HN recommender · 2015–2022
4 mo on HN

31 Hamming, Learning to Learn: You and Your Research, 6 June 1995

Hamming on Hamming: Learning to Learn
3 HN recommender · 2020–2024
3 mo on HN

Hamming, Intro to The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (March 28, 1995)

securitylectures
3 HN recommender · 2016–2020
4 mo on HN

The Power of belief -- mindset and success | Eduardo Briceno | TEDxManhattanBeach

TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2014–2020
4 mo on HN

Practical Creativity

GDC Festival of Gaming
3 HN recommender · 2018–2026