Who is Randy Pausch?

Randy Pausch was one of the well-known professors at Carnegie Mellon University who specialized in Design and Human Interaction. He formerly was an assistant and associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Unfortunately, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September 2006 and later died due to complications in July 2008.

What was he known for?

Randy Pausch was well known for the New York Times bestseller book he co-authored called "The Last Lecture", as well as that, and as was said earlier, he was a well-known professor at Carnegie Mellon University and was known for his contributions in research with Google, Adobe, Walt Disney etc.

Five things I liked in his talk

I made a list of 9 bullet points for this but will summarize it!

• I liked how he outlined that time is more significant than money and how he established a relationship between how were supposed to manage money and time likewise.
• Poor time management needs a systemic solution such as creating to-do lists, creating fake deadlines and breaking everything into smaller tasks.
• The quote "Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement" which also relates to how he stressed the importance of deciding which tasks have to be prioritised.
• The importance of planning where he said and I quote "Failing to plan is planning to fail" even if you have to change the plan more than once, it has to be there
• The fact that to achieve success you have to optimize time management skills but the opposite statement isn't necessarily true