AJmaverick

Software engineer. #ALX_SE. @alx_africa C1B. I love hiking.

[Lima @limalemonnn]

this is insane. i genuinely don't understand why ambitious people aren't shown this lecture before their careers start consuming their entire lives.

clayton christensen spent his career studying why successful companies collapse. in his final class, he asked students to apply the theory to themselves: if you keep allocating your time the same way, what life are you actually building?

he had already seen the answer in his own harvard mba class. everyone looked successful at the fifth reunion; by the 10th, 15th, 20th, and 25th, many were unhappy, divorced, and living far from their children.

work shows you the score immediately. close a sale, ship a product, finish a presentation, earn a promotion, get paid.

an hour with your child may produce nothing you can measure today; it may take 20 years to understand what that hour built. so the next free hour goes back to work, one rational decision at a time.

this is how people build lives they never planned: through hundreds of right decisions that lead in the wrong direction, day after day.

money, titles, and headcount are easy to count. christensen believed a life should be measured by the people who became better because you were there.

he died in 2020.

one question remains: if someone saw only where your time, energy, and attention went this year, what would they think actually mattered to you?

the full 19-minute lecture is in the video below.

[AJmaverick @JmaverickA]

@chequeredd__ @svpino STEM all the way

[AJmaverick @JmaverickA]

@chequeredd__ @bigarms4me @dxckiii All life forms get tired 😫

[AJmaverick @JmaverickA]

@chequeredd__ @olumidecapital Numerical literacy

[Ian McKelvey @ian_mckelvey]

Her own party jettisoned her.

[AJmaverick @JmaverickA]

@chequeredd__ @iam_sommy @luminaries232 @OracleODF Give not your strength 👀

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The CEO of an aircraft company should know how to design aircraft, not spreadsheets

[Ana Mostarac @anammostarac]

John McAfee:

- worked as a programmer on the Apollo missions
- killed his dad
- started McAfee software
- forbes top 100
- presidential candidate
- wanted in 3 countries
- survived 50+ assassination attempts
- married a prostitute who had been hired to kill him
- behind Edward Snowden
- bitcoin billionaire
- hacked Hillary Clintons office by sending her staff free computers
- killed a few people in Belize
- lived on a boat in the Caribbean with armed guards
- has never paid income tax because he blackmailed the US government
- escaped captivity in Guatemala by faking a heart attack
- suicided in a Spanish prison
- may still be alive?

You:

- needs 300mg caffeine to write scripts in python

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

@OkpePhillips They fully succeeded. Removed a president with a PhD, an excellent cabinet, an FOIA Act, and an economy growing at 7% annually.

Replaced that with an illiterate who delivered 3 recessions in 8 years and murdered protesters, followed by a drug pusher with a 2,500-page FBI file.

[AJmaverick @JmaverickA]

@chequeredd__ @ulot_szn @yabaleftonline Relativity

[AJmaverick @JmaverickA]

@chequeredd__ @ResistanceSean Sleep off while looping through Wikipedia interlinks.

[AJmaverick @JmaverickA]

@chequeredd__ @ImadeIyamu See why I rep those guys

[AJmaverick @JmaverickA]

@chequeredd__ @baguettecuts 😭 he clearly doesn't.

[AJmaverick @JmaverickA]

@chequeredd__ @ThaBoyYom Not even handshake 😅

[AJmaverick @JmaverickA]

@chequeredd__ @Jade_Mois @imohumoren Lessons have been/are being/will be learnt.

[Clint Russell @LibertyLockPod]

Terrence Howard is either having a schizophrenic break or he's the smartest man alive and I'm too dumb to know which

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

Congratulations to Real Madrid for winning the league title.