Mark Starnes

[Mark Starnes @mfstarnes]

@hectorhector__ @DJBurners He beats UNC?

[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.

[Mark Starnes @mfstarnes]

@JimPGillies @themotleyfool Congratulations, Jim! You’ve made me (and so many others) a better investor.

[Mark Starnes @mfstarnes]

@MarkPacker Our first time for 4DX as well. We thought the fans for the outdoors and air puffs from the headrest for the arrows were pretty effective. The seats, however, seemed to need a better choreographer😄as it felt random at times

[Mark Starnes @mfstarnes]

@carlquintanilla Biden could have said the same thing in 2022, based on his logic

[Mark Starnes @mfstarnes]

@DataChaz Robot probably locked its knees and passed out

[Mark Starnes @mfstarnes]

@BillAckman @BarackObama @HillaryClinton I didn't hear him call them rapists? Or, eating the pets?

[Mark Starnes @mfstarnes]

@YIN_and_YANG_oo Could have been Jordan’s last game. 23 points at halftime, 45 for the game - his two jersey #s

[Matt Burnell @mdburnell]

I would like to personally congratulate Sophie Cunningham on becoming a first ballot Meme Hall of Famer. A truly generational performance.

[Bryan Ives @awaytoworthy]

Folks like to point out that North Carolina went 20 years between top-5 NBA Draft picks.

During that “drought”, the Tar Heels won 2 national titles and reached 5 Final Fours.

[Mark Starnes @mfstarnes]

@selinatasnim1 Claude

[Mark Starnes @mfstarnes]

@S_U_Network Raising Arizona

[Mark Starnes @mfstarnes]

Is there anyone more made for this time than Jensen Huang? Thank you @StanfordOnline for making this possible.

Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | Jensen Huang from NVIDIA on the Comput... https://t.co/15C25s4EPA via @YouTube

@NVIDIAAI

[Mark Starnes @mfstarnes]

@edzitron Disregard the amount, he basically said Stanford is smart enough with vast resources to solve this problem. They're not a victim, it's theirs to own if they so choose. The good news is, if they don't, someone already is.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Jensen Huang is NOT MAD ok? He’s NOT MAD. In fact he’s quite literally laughing

[Baloncesto España @BaloncestoESP]

Todo un campeón de la NBA en Huelva🤯

Mike Malone, ahora entrenador de @UNC_Basketball, disfrutando del talento en el #FEBJuniorM2026 🤩

#SomosEquipo

[Mark Starnes @mfstarnes]

@spacanpanman Buying the dip as well. Great meeting the community this weekend as well.

[Words of Wise | Mindset Coach @Wordofwise_]

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

— Warren Buffett