Randy Pausch's Last Lecture (2007) [video]

I remember watching this in graduate school in 2008. I was in the same discipline as Randy and know some of his former students. I showed this to my mom who is was nurse and she really disliked it. I think because she felt he had a lot of advice and confidence but the output of his work was so abstract compared to her profession. Over time I’m noticing I appreciate my mom’s opinion on this more - not that I dislike Randy or his work - but more that I think academics and technologists are prone to think highly of themselves when there are hard working people helping people directly or even saving lives every day… Just a thought for discussion I suppose.

I remember reading his blog. It almost looked like he could beat it. He had full surgery--the Whipple procedure. But the recurrence killed him soon after.