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Obit in the New York Times.

No surprise here, but the "Last Lecture" is very inspirational. Here's the original 1hr 16min version at Carnegie Mellon. Here's the website for the book. Here's Randy's CMU homepage. (Note: some of those sites are timing out at this writing)

Below is the 10 min version he did on Oprah:

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{hat tip to [livejournal.com profile] nayad, who posted the original pointer to Randy I followed.}
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Derek Zumsteg points to a video piece by Ira Glass that just might be the most inspirational thing I've seen in a long time. Glass talks about the thing that discourages most people out of doing creative work: They have good enough taste to know what's good, and also to know that they're not there yet. The trick is to keep banging your head against the wall until you do get good, to the extent that it's a learnable skill. He's also modest enough to talk about how he took years to get good at storytelling.

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