Every few years, you’re reminded about things that have shaped the arc of your life.
Just last week, something popped up on the homepage of Hacker News that was like meeting an old friend again. It was a link to Youtube to Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture and it’s amazingly powerful to watch. It marked one of the first times I really thought about how I did things, rather than the thing itself.
The lecture was given in September 2007… it was no small coincidence that I’d quit my job and be working for myself by January of 2008.
I had the pleasure of going to Carnegie Mellon and I even tried to take Randy Pausch’s course, Building Virtual Worlds, but never made it off the waitlist (it was the first few years it was available and everyone wanted to be in it… and there were far more deserving students than me). Sometimes I wish I had tried harder to get in the class but that’s the benefit of hindsight.
If you’ve never heard this lecture before, I’m excited for you. 🙂
Have a great day!