Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

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rebase · 2018-06 · Strong recommendation

If you haven't watched this, it will change your life. Even if you have, it's one of the few youtube videos that is worth a re-watch. The book is just as good if not better. [VIDEO] Spoiler: It is a former CS professor at Carnegie Mellon named Randy Pausch. He had terminal pancreatic cancer. This is a dying professor's last lecture. It is a father sharing life lessons for his kids when they are older to watch. Some relevant quotes: - “As you get older, you may find that 'enabling the dreams of others' thing is even more fun.” - “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” - “The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. ” - “Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.” - “People are more important than things.”

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sdrinf · 2010-09 · Strong recommendation

Welcome to the law of Diminishing returns. Your choices fundamentally boils down to the following: -Take the blue pill. Stay in wonderland. Pick a technology, any technology. Drive yourself into it deeper. The rabbit hole goes much, much further, than you can imagine. -Take the red pill, and wake up: the rabbit hole goes the other way, too. On first basis, you have the ever-exploding number of scientific disciplines ( [LINK] ). Even further, society isn't merely a collection of engineers, and scientist: other people have all kind of different jobs. Furthermore, they are equally convinced, that their field of choice was the right one; and from their own perspective each one of them was right. Since you're HN, you might have a particular interest towards this field we call "business". Now, this is not what people around you -who are called "managers" btw- do. A good working definition for engineers is: Business is the ability to actualize a job that needs to be done, on which you're retroactively hired (or fired) by society as a whole. Or, as PG put it: doing stuff what people wants. Regardless of how you choose, a good partition of it is going to be soul-searching. There are 2 pieces of media I'd strongly recommend for that: -Randy Pausch Last Lecture [ [VIDEO] ], and -wishcraft, which is a short book, available freely from [LINK] . On an ending note, I feel for you. Every time I've been down to this alley, I always always wished I'd have done it earlier. If anything, you shou

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RonaldOlzheim · 2023-01 · Recommendation

Please watch these videos in the right order: 1 Please watch this video for why: [LINK] 2 Please watch this video for how: [LINK] 3 Please watch this video for what: [LINK] 4 Please watch this for when: [VIDEO] Final note: I believe in the good so much all the time, but it is hard to keep believing in the good all the time. Please watch this when you are having a hard time believing: [LINK] I hope you receive courage, wisdom, temperance and moderation. *Let´s connect on Linkedin. (You can message me anytime) Ron.

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