This is a list of technical and non technical speaking I've made notes on. My goal is to find a way to reflect on great content.
These notes may only make sense to me, but I'm happy to share.
See also Public Speaking.
Top 5
Cultivating Instinct. Katrina Owen.
Go Testing By Example by Russ Coxx with pragmatic advice on how and why we write tests.
Explore, Expand, Extract - Kent Beck presents at YOW! conference in 2018. Kent talks about how experimentation at places like Facebook is important for their innovation, and discusses culture that is against test driven development.
Scaling Yourself - Scott Hanselman presents at GOTO Conference in 2012
The Myth of the Modular Monolith - Eileen Uchitelle presents at Rails World 2024
The Craft of Writing Effectively by Larry McEnerney
History
Finding noteworthy vessels with network analysis Presented by Heather Deacon (Business Development Manager) and Dr Fernando Cagua (Machine Learning Engineer)
Collaborating with actionable intelligence from IUU risk indicators. Presented by Megan Charley (Maritime Domain Awareness Analyst) and Andy Hovey (Chief Product Officer)
TDD, AI agents and coding with Kent Beck and The Pragmatic Programmer.
The State of Software Engineering interview between Kent Beck and Luca Rossi on the Refactoring.fm podcast.
From XP to TCR & Limbo presented by Kent Beck & Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO 2025
TDD: Theme & Variations by Kent Beck
A Daily Practice of Empirical Software Design by Kent Beck
The Craft of Writing Effectively by Larry McEnerney
Beyond senior: lessons from the technical career path by Dawn Richardson
Go Testing By Example by Russ Cox.
How to Prepare for Technical Interviews. Engineering with Utsav, Youtube.
The Magic Tricks of Testing by Sandi Metz.
Being Glue by Tanya Reily.
Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB. Rick Houlihan’s presents at AWS re:Invent 2019
God Is Not Great. Christopher Hitchens presents at Google in 2008.
Using Cloze Deletion Cards. Kealan Hobelmann's tips on how to use Cloze cards for learning facts effectively.
5 Fundamentals of Leadership by Simon Sinek.
Start with Why by Simon Sinek.
But what is a Fourier series? From heat flow to drawing with circles - 3Blue1Brown series, S4E4
Rust, Wright's Law, and the Future of Low-Latency Systems. Brian Cantrill presents at P99 Conf
Data modeling with Amazon DynamoDB. Alex DeBrie presents at AWS re:Invent, 2019
Gonzo Journalism, an interview with Hunter S. Thompson 1975
Coaching: Conscious Performance Improvement. Fred Kofman, 2015.
Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking - Jeff Gothelf presents at Øredev 2018
Why Scaling Agile Doesn't Work - Jez Humble presents at GOTO 2015
Stability Patterns & Antipatterns - Michael T. Nygard presents at GOTO 2016
Financial Fitness Webinar - Hannah McQueen
Agile is Dead - Dave Thomas presents at GOTO 2015
Uncoupling - Michael T. Nygard presents at GOTO 2018
This equation will change how you see the world - Sophie Wilson presents her keynote at Juliacon 2018
The Future of Microprocessors - Sophie Wilson presents at Juliacon 2018 about how we scaled down and how much harder it's going to be going forward.
Lucky You - by Sandi Metz presented her Keynote at RubyConf 2019
How to lose 50 Million Records in 5 minutes - Jon Druse presents at RubyConf in 2019
Introduction to Apache Cassandra - Patrick McFadin from Datastacks presents at CernerEng in 2014
Introduction to NoSQL - Martin Fowler presents at GOTO conference in 2012
The Lost Art of Software Design - Simon Brown presents at SCL Conf in 2019
Patterns of Effective Teams - Dan North presents at GOTO Conference in 2017
Absolute Unit (Test) - Dave Chaney presents at LondonGophers in 2019. Lessons on applying TDD to go, and subtle ways that you should be thinking about what needs testing.
Old Is the New New - Kevlin Henney presents at GOTO 2018. Reflections on how we keep chasing performance and rediscovering the same lessons.
The Clean Coder - Uncle Bob Martin presents at Laracon in 2018. Discussion about architecture, how it should reflect the purpose of an application and an easy way to do this in your code.
TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong - Ian Cooper presents at DevTernity 2017. Discussion about how you can keep up with developers who hack things together, and the types of TDD that hinder a codebase.
The Future of Programming - Uncle Bob Martin presents at Skills Matter in 2016. Discussion about how the industry is reacting to rapid expansion through rigid process, and how Agile was intended to help heal the divide between developer culture and business.
Here be Dragons - Katrina Owen presents at RubyBath in 2015. A story about fixing a bug, then going further and fixing underlying structural problems.
Overkill - Katrina Owen presents at E4E Developer Conf in 2014. A story about practice on basic problems is a path to mastery in your craft.
What Does Tech Excellence Look Like? - Martin Fowler presents at TW Live Australia in 2016. Arguments on why getting quick feedback from deployment gives you better information to make the right kind of bets.
Test Desiderata - Kent Beck and Kelly Sutton
Make Time (Presentation). A short video that urges people to protect their focus time.
Sources
Links to videos from A Case for Pair Programming. tuple.app 
There's an open source live event for Golang. withgoogle.com
VIM Conf 2020 playlist