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Notes for Randy Pausch's Time Management Speech

  1. Who is Randy Pausch?

    He was a CMU CS professor. He's at University of Virgenia to talk about time management.

  2. What was he known for?

    To quote the Youtube video description, "he is a virtual reality pioneer, human-computer interaction researcher, co-founder of Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center and creator of the Alice software project."

  3. 5 points that I liked in his talk:

    • He is optimistic towards his cancer and tries his best to make the speech funny and enjoyable using personal examples (like a talk show in some ways).
    • His talk about time management is a progressional way and are audience-specific.
    • His unique perspective on calling others at 11:50 to keep the call short and save time (now I understand why my mother calls whenever I start eating).
    • His futuristic vision on auto-scanning desks, brain-computer interface, and noise-free social media (quite surprising that some are still concepts nowadays).
    • His detailed instruction and guidelines on what we could to do better manage our time e.g. get personal digital assistant and do reflections on time management skills.