Swandives

So it’s the last day for voting and I head over to the YouTube awards channel. And, pretty much at random, I click on Randy Pausch’s ‘Last Lecture’ in the inspirational category. In recent times I have found I get a lot out of inspirational stories, even though in the past I may have dismissed it all as sentimental and therefore somehow unworthy of being useful. At about one and a quarter hours long, this YouTube clip is waaay above the commonly accepted two minute timeline for web video. But it’s worth every. single. minute. Randy Pausch is a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, but that’s only part of the story. If ever there was a lecture that defined inspiration, this is it.