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Wednesday, April 9, 2008 12:00 AM

You must watch this: Randy Pausch's "last lecture"

A dying computer science professor describes what he's learned in life.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2008 02:03 PM

Other link

There's another post of the lecture on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo.

Doesn't include the intros that, while they're great, also take some time to get through.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 02:37 PM

Yes yes yes

So glad to see Salon posting this. The lecture affected me very strongly. Everyone: watch it! :)

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 04:56 PM

Thanks for the Other Link

This one stops 12 minutes in and won't fucking budge.

Thursday, April 10, 2008 05:25 AM

Wrong venue

The lecture was delivered at the University of Virginia, not Carnegie-Mellon. The whole clip, including the 12-minute introduction, is here:

http://lifehacker.com/377112/randy-pauschs-time-management-tricks

Thursday, April 10, 2008 05:30 AM

Recantation

Oops ... apparently there are at least two videos of Pausch, one shot in Pittsburgh and one in Charlottesville. Mea culpa. Go Wahoos!

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