stjk2513

A 9 to 5’er making apps on the side

[Electra @Electrarythm]

Nobody tells you how much you can change just by being delusionally optimistic

[Scient @scientxbt]

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.

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

@dillon_mulroy I’ll never learn!

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

Truly good salesman/marketers are like the most competent people ever

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

Outbound sales for beginners:

1. Sign up for linked in
2. DM

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

Everyone talks about marketing what about outbound?

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

@natiakourdadze Too much sauce for beginners

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

@owenthcarey I was thinking about quitting corp and starting a biz actually

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

@owenthcarey What you up to right now?

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

@japan_nobunaga Decision making is like the hardest skill but if you avoid learning it you’ll end up doing everything half heartedly or put your entire life on hold

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

@owenthcarey Every day

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

@askwhykartik Working at big tech is overrated and is a completely different skill than building products. You’re doing well

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

@peer_rich My selfie

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

@natiakourdadze Agency

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

@ChadAppDev Lifestyle part was the huge part I think. If it was pure money they would have started an agency or got into big tech

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

I’ll even reply to engagement bait

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

@jackwere7 Seriously disagreee

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

@KhalidAlNumi $250,000

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

@gpumaxxer @eptwts Your landing page very slow

[stjk2513 @stjk2513]

@infinterenders Consider the nostalgia factor