Randy Pausch passes at 47…

Randy Pausch, Professor at Carnige Mellon University in Pittsburg, Was a personal inspiration to me and Millions of other people around the world. His words are a constant reminder that things are never as bad as they seem, and of why we need to live a life that inspires others. He succumbed to pancreatic cancer early Friday morning at home in Virginia. While he didn’t live that long in years (47), his life was a luminescent falling star that touched so many of his students, watchers and readers of the “Last Lecture.” which you can watch below. As Randy himself put it in remarks to CMU graduates recently and demonstrated through his life, “We don’t beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well.”

Live well, Nick…