A day late but still worth mentioning.

While this is old news in the age of instant information, I feel that it warrants mentioning.  On Thursday I came across a forum post by David Lago on the Vencorps site.  The thread was in reference to books that entrepreneurs should read.  It was started by Lee Graham founder of TRImagination and produced a large number of exceptional materials including:

1. Books- everything from  “Art of the Start” to  “Getting Real” to “The Third Wave”.

2. Presentations on blue ocean strategy and various other business practices

3. Lectures- The most critical of which was “The Last lecture” by Professor Randy Pausch now available in book form through Hyperion Publishing and available here.

This was the first time that I was ever exposed to Professor Pausch in any real way, and I felt like a fool for never experiencing his work before.  I watched the entire lecture in one sitting that Thursday afternoon.  After the lecture was finished, I did some additional reasearch and attempted to extract every ounce of knowledge that I could in a short time frame.

Yesterday afternoon I was speaking to Michael Nelson about business materials when I nearly hit the floor.  Just one day after having “met” this amazing man, I was informed that he had passed.  I was shocked.  Yesterday the entire net was ablaze eulogizing and proclaiming the greatness of Professor Pausch and I crawled literally hundreds of blogs and news sites and learned of the far reaching impact of Professor Pausches work and legacy.  He was truly amazing.

Donations can be made to the Carnegie Mellon’s Randy Pausch Memorial Fund.