Dr. Randy Pausch passed away today.
If you have not yet read, “The Last Lecture” please do.
If you’ve not yet seen this remarkable person’s “last lecture” please do. Last month I wrote a case study about Carnegie Mellon and its Web 2.0 initiatives including its own channel and vids on YouTube and sad to say, one of the best anecdotal pieces was edited out for brevity.
The part of the case study edited out is below, and i think it speaks volumes to the idea that no matter who you are (even Bill Gates), no matter what your fame, what really matters is how well your express your life and how you inspire people to be more. Pausch did that and is a beacon for all of us.
“Bill Gates’ lecture also in the series, gathered 36,327 views and runs in length at forty-eight minutes. In contrast, Dr. Pausch’s lecture has now generated 2,183,396 million views despite its length of one hour and sixteen minutes.”
Note that the case study was written in June and Pausch’s vid as of today on YouTube is over 3,500,000 million and counting views.
And note that John McCain’s speech at Carnegie on YouTube added 3 months ago has only had 5,538 views.
Barack Obama’s speech at Carnegie on YouTube added 4 weeks ago has only had 5,989 views.
Interesting.
God Bless Dr. Pausch.
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