Last Lecturer

It was Jun Balde who kind of introduced me to Randy Pausch, the professor whose "last lecture" was a one-hour YouTube phenom and whose book Jun said would be the next great hit in the country. It didn't. Randy died Friday of pancreatic cancer. It's not it wasn't expected. In fact, he was given the diagnosis and Randy was given 3 to 6 months to live. He decided to give his lecture entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," at Carnegie Mellon last September. On YouTube, more than 3 million watched that lecture. I watched it only last June only because Jun said and I was touched.