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The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The book in question is entitled “The Last Lecture” and was written by Randy Pausch. Randy was a computer scientist (like me!), a professor at CMU (like me!), with significant previous experience in the industry (also like me!) – a kindred soul it seems. But what can one do when one’s “To Read” list is longer than the actual book itself? However, I finally got round to it, and I’m glad I did. I’ve been incessantly pestered ever since by the person in charge of my induction to read this book. “This could actually be interesting”, I thought, and mentally added the book to the bottom of my “To Read” list. But I felt guilty about this reaction shortly after when I was told what the book was about: a past Carnegie Mellon University professor’s last lecture shortly before dying of cancer. So, when I walked into my first day at work at Carnegie Mellon University (Australia campus) and saw the person in charge of my induction training holding a book obviously destined to end up in my possession, the invisible eyes of my invisible soul rolled as far back as possible into my invisible soul’s head. Such books are usually of the soulless sort, the sort that are written around some lifeless corporate motto that is supposed to inspire a new employee to work overtime when needed. ![]() ![]() I detest receiving books as gifts in the workplace. ![]()
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