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My 8 Life Lessons from Randy Pausch

Jul 25, 2008
Randy Pausch sadly died on July 25, 2008 after leading a brief but powerful life. I think the legacy of Randy Pausch is for me in his life lessons: I've supplied 8, you can supply you own in comments… In no particular order, here they are:

Behind MIT's DARPA Weather Balloon challenge win

Dec 11, 2009
MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team As many of you know, the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team (part of the MIT Media Lab) won the race to locate the DARPA Red Weather Balloon Challenge.    Their system was a reverse Ponzi scheme where those finding the...

The Hidden Cost of Joblessless to Communities

Dec 10, 2009
Flickr Photo by Isabel Garconi Robert Putnam and I have an Op-Ed in today’s USA Today (12/10/09) summarizing our evidence and others’ on the serious social consequences of unemployment, both to the unemployed and residents in the surrounding...

Health benefits of volunteering

Dec 9, 2009
The NY Times had an interesting piece yesterday on the health benefits of volunteering. They cite Stephen Post’s work, which I have discussed earlier, but also notes a 2002 Boston College study (Paul Arnstein et al.) and a California Buck Institute...

Wired to cooperate?

Dec 2, 2009
An interesting article in the Science Times section of the NY Times discusses research by developmental psychologist Michael Tomasello (appearing in Why We Cooperate). At 18 months of age, Tomasello finds that toddlers almost universally immediately...

Loneliness contagious? An oxymoron?

Dec 1, 2009
It seems contradictory.  How can the lonely (who are largely outside of social networks) get their loneliness through social networks? It makes sense when you think of people’s movements in social networks over some period of time.  The lonely may...

My 8 Life Lessons from Randy Pausch



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