Randy Pausch Summary

Randy Pausch was a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Randy Pausch is known for his last lecture at Carnegie Mellon University which was named “The Last Lecture”. He died 10 months later of complications from pancreatic cancer. His lecture, however, went viral on YouTube and led him to co-author a book about the same topic which also became a New York Times best-seller.

Points that I liked about his Time Management Talk:

1. Time Management is like African hunger issue. Solving the issue for one day is not the way to go; Finding the root of the problem and then solve it.
2. “Doing the right things adequately is much more important than doing the wrong things beautifully.”
3. “If you got a bunch of things to do, do the ugliest thing first.”
4. Thank-you notes are important other than the ones sent to company recruiters.
5. Interruptions are really bad to working on things, so turn off notifications when doing a flow of work.

P.S. I actually feel learning how efficient algorithms and CPUs work taught me a lot about time management.