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{ 2007 09 21 }

I’m vulnerable to prioritizing crap that, in the end, doesn’t matter at all

I’m vulnerable to prioritizing crap that, in the end, doesn’t matter at all. Every now and then I come across something that helps return perspective. I’m grateful for that, and I thought I’d pass it along.

Randy Pausch, a 46-year-old professor at Carnegie Mellon university, has incurable pancreatic cancer. He has been given months to live.

Two days ago, he gave his last lecture:

What we’re not going to talk about today is cancer, because I’ve spent a lot of time talking about that … and we’re not going to talk about things that are even more important, like my wife and [three preschool] kids, because I’m good, but I’m not good enough to talk about that without tearing up.

Here’s the full video of the lecture. I think I’ll go play with my son now.