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Randy Pausch Lecture: Time Management

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  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2009 to 2021.
  • Presented by Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Professor

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Randy Pausch shares practical advice and strategies for effective time management, prioritization, and avoiding procrastination.

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch gave a lecture on Time Management at the University of Virginia in November 2007. Randy Pausch is a virtual reality pioneer, human-computer interaction researcher, co-founder of Carnegie Mellon's and creator of the Alice software project. Randy Pausch's Last Lecture - Remastered: youtu.be/ayPMfopCe1g

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What people say. Highly recommended by engineers as a classic, life-changing lecture on productivity and prioritizing important tasks over urgent ones.

allardschipon Hacker News • Recommends

On “How to hack the beliefs that are holding you back”

Reminds me of Annette Benning in American Beauty: "I will sell this house today. I will sell this house today." Not starting on activities because you don't like them or you don't feel not comfortable will drag you down. You'll be thinking about it all day. I tell myself in the morning to the most unpleasant thing on my to do list first. Eat the hairy frog first! I learned from Randi Pausch. Worth watching every minute: link to this video -edit spelling
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will_pseudonymon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Writing well”

Absolutely. In that same vein, I've gotten a lot out of so many similar videos which are ostensibly about one thing, but to effectively use what they're teaching, you have to start learning/mastering something else entirely. "Indirect learning" is one way to put it, and a term I picked up from Randy Pausch's Last Lecture0. I've gained so much from watching that video, as well as his Time Management video1. So much so that I rewatch it about once a year, because every time you rewatch something, you're a different person in certain ways, and you often appreciate things much more the more you change and grow as a person. 0 link 1 link to this video
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pushcxon Lobsters • Recommends

Randy Pausch Lecture: Time Management While Pausch is speaking to academics about academic work, I found his recommendations broadly applicable to knowledge work (and life in general).
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bluefishon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Do you set goals?”

Not goal related directly; I've found this lecture by the late professor Randy Pausch regarding time management to be very interesting. I'm not sure I agree with his hands-free phone + bike use tip, but I think his talk has a lot of good points. link to this video
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screwpermanon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions?”

…spire to be an IMO/IOI/IPhO/IChO/ISEF medalist (if you don't know what those are, shame on you). 2. Manage your time I was absolutely dismal at this. But I've started doing it for a month and it really does wonders: I have stopped procrastinating and started to feel less stressed out. I'd recommend you watch the late Randy Pausch's other lecture ( link to this video ) or read Getting T…
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will_pseudonymon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Time Management by Randy Pausch [pdf]”

"This is the most important slide in the entire talk. So, if you want to leave after this slide, I will not be offended, because it is all downhill from here." link to this video (Timestamped link of the "Time Management" talk by Randy Pausch, which is what the OP PDF is from) That part in the talk is about the "Eisenhower Matrix", popularized by Steven Covey in "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", on the importance of prioritizing important, non-urgent tasks over urgent, unimportant tasks. You can read about it here as well, but I haven't seen it put as well as Randy Pausch did in his talk. link PS If you haven't seen his "Last Lecture", it's also fantastic. I watch it about once a year to re-…
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impon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: Self improvement programs”

…were things that were tailored to the problems I was having at the time. Here's an overview of what I've read over the years that have helped me to some extent: I Can Do Anything if I Only Knew What it Was: link Paul Graham's Essays: link How to Win Friends and Influence People: link Four Hour Work Week: link Randy Pausch, Time Management: link to this video GTD: link Steve Pavlina: link 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (reading this now): link So I would say "it depends" on what you want out of life and where you are now. Self improvement is a life-long task and you will need advice that changes as you progress.…
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willhinsaon Hacker News • Mentions

On “A Financial Model Comparing Car Ownership with UberX in Los Angeles”

You may not be losing wages, but you are losing time. I think that the 50% assumption in the model is wrong, too, but in the opposite direction. There are activities that many people can do while riding in a vehicle with no loss of quality, like reading. Randy Pausch - Time Management link to this video
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rasengan0on Hacker News • Mentions

On “My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)”

…ion after trying so many: wikis, org, TheBrain, Freemind, etc. It's like a return to the old .LOG in notepad trick. After a score, I'm came to the same conclusion as the article; plain text just works. I log in vim using ISO 8601 date stamped records in the log format of (priority - datetime stamp - keywords/tag - content) inspired by Randy Pausch link to this video others noticed too: link Sorting by date, priority or keyword keeps me on track and helps for quarterly summaries. A simple bash loop runs annually to give me a fresh 365 dashboard of days but inserts are a datetime stamp command - keywords autocompleted - then actual typing the meat of the task/content Because all text is in a single fil…
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