{"id":176,"date":"2007-09-28T23:51:29","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2007-09-28T23:51:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:51:29","slug":"tribute-to-randy-pausch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to Randy Pausch"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t heard of this, it’s timely you visit Randy’s homepage<\/a> now to get a good idea. Here’s his last lecture video: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n

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In summary, Randy is dying of pancreatic cancer<\/a>. After months of treatment, the cancer returned, so it is practically death sentence.<\/p>\n

The lecture you hear above (1 hour 25 minutes) will be his last in CMU<\/a>, my alma mater. Although I’m neither an expert in religious stuff nor chemotherapy, I sincerely hope some biological miracle can happen – and that god will let him see through a few more years of his children growing up and his lovely wife. At the very least – even if you have no time \/ bandwidth to download a few hundred MB of video, do read through a few of the shorter articles by major news sources, such as The Wall Street<\/a>Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My own lessons learned from the lecture:<\/p>\n