I have been reading about Professor Randy Pausch’s speech since I picked up on the story on Information Arbitrage. Until today, I had not spent the 9:59 to actually watch the speech in its entirety. I am happy to report that I finally did watch the entire speech.

The man and the speech are an inspiration and his legacy will live on through the magic of YouTube and viral distribution. If you do not know about Professor Pausch’s speech here is a quick synopsis of the man, the context and the speech.

The speech is titled How to Achieve Your Childhood Dreams and was given September 18 by a beloved Computer Science professor at Carnegie-Mellon University. The speech was part of a “Last Lecture” series, where top professors give talks as if it is the last lecture they are going to give, ever. For Professor Pausch this very well be among his last lectures as he is going to die of pancreatic cancer within the next two months.

I hope that you will enjoy and spread Professor Pausch’s amazing speech, the entirety of which can be found here. I have embedded a video which is a compendium of good moments from the speech with commentary from WSJ’s Jeff Zaslow.

by Tyler, CEO