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Ryan Singer, Basecamp's head of Product Strategy, starts out a multi-part series by talking about how we decide what to work on every 6 weeks. From the strategy to pitches, to project selection, to project budgeting, to integrated teams, to the expectation of completion by the end of the cycle, this video sets the foundation for what comes next.

⁣Execute on most important priorities.

To live a more balanced existence, you have to recognize that not doing everything that comes along is okay. There's no need to overextend yourself. All it takes is realizing that it's all right to say no when necessary and then focus on your highest priorities.

April Underwood of Slack talks about how customer feedback can get overwhelming ad how a great team can help narrow these down without compromising on the output and taking customers for granted.

Learn how to organize an effective essay through this video. Essay outlines are important in long write-ups like school thesis and magazine-style writing.

⁣An informal or casual writing style tends to use contractions, colloquial (slang) language, a subjective perspective, as well as other traits. By contrast, a formal tone is more polished and focused. Learn how to recognize the tone of a piece of writing and improve your own prose.

As a writer one should be familiar with sentence structure. ⁣Sometimes finding the subject of a sentence can be difficult. In this video, we discuss some tricky cases to watch out for.

⁣As part of a series on analyzing English literature (and writing a quality essay), we look at Marxist literary theory. This video explains the relationship between the base and the superstructure and explores how later Marxist literary critics such as Raymond Williams adapted Marx's ideas to help with literary interpretation.

The video is part of a literary series introducing the basics of literary theory.

⁣Biology is the subject that studies life in all its forms, from the simple cell through to all the animals that inhabit the planet. In this map, the subject of biology is laid out and how all of the sub-disciplines are related to each other: microbiology, genetics, bioengineering, anatomy, physiology, medicine, neuroscience, ecology, zoology to name but a few.

⁣The entire field of chemistry summarised in 12mins from simple atoms to the molecules that keep you alive.

⁣Everything you need to know about gravitational waves. In February 2016 scientists announced the first detection of gravitational waves by humans on Earth. This was a huge, world-changing, discovery. The gravitational waves were caused by a pair of colliding black holes 1.3 billion light-years away 1.3 billion years ago. This video summarizes all of the mind-blowing facts about gravitational waves and describes LIGO, the incredibly sensitive telescope that detected them.

⁣Computer science is the subject that studies what computers can do and investigates the best ways you can solve the problems of the world with them. It is a huge field overlapping pure mathematics, engineering and many other scientific disciplines. This video summarises as much of the subject and show how the areas are related to each other.

⁣A simple and clear explanation of all the important features of quantum physics that you need to know. ⁣The video explains the quantum wavefunction, particle-wave duality, the measurement problem, the double-slit experiment, superposition, entanglement, quantum tunneling, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and energy quantisation.

⁣Pulling from personal experience as a professor at the IU Kelley School of Business as well as her time working with Coach Bob Knight, Ann Bastianelli explains that marketing principles of big brand companies are applicable to building one’s personal brand. Ms. Bastianelli asks us to consider how we are unique and what we have to offer to every opportunity that is waiting for us in the future!

⁣The theme of his talk is "How to start your own business without investors?". Nicholas answers the question by giving tips based on his personal experience. Nicholas Hänny is the co-founder and CEO of NIKIN, a sustainable clothing brand from Switzerland that plants one tree for each product sold. NIKIN has been in the top 3 of the Swiss Economic Award 2019 and won the “Swiss Brand of the Year” Award for best cost-benefit ratio in the Swiss clothing industry. With NIKIN, Nicholas is responsible for already 500’000 trees planted. He has also been elected “Aargauer of the Year 2019”. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

Business management in China is changing, says management consultant Fang Ruan. Learn how Chinese entrepreneurs -- long guided by Confucianism's emphasis on authority and regulation -- are now looking to Taoist philosophy for a new, dynamic leadership style that believes things spontaneously transform and naturally achieve perfection when they're supported, not controlled.

⁣In this talk, Bill Roche shares stories of students that have created their own real business ventures with PowerPlay Young Entrepreneurs. He illustrates the power of enabling students to take charge of their learning with freedom to make mistakes, and challenging them to actively develop entrepreneurial skills.

⁣In a very short amount of time the human population exploded and is still growing very fast. Will this lead to the end of our civilization?

⁣Melanie Klein was a great psychotherapist who teaches us how to stop either idealising or denigrating others.

⁣Jacques Lacan was France’s most famous psychoanalyst, who came up with the intriguing concept of the ‘mirror phase.’ This video shows his take on Psychotherapy.