# How Will You Measure Your Life? - Host: [hbr.org](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/hbr.org/) - Saved: January 29, 2020 (2020-01-30T05:29:12Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0c41148a79c2/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0c41148a79c2.json ## What Jamie wrote [Clayton Christensen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Christensen), author of The Innovators Dilemma, passed away last week and many people were sharing talks and articles by him. This article was by far the most recommended, and I had not read it. I strongly encourage reading it, maybe multiple times. > I have a bunch of "businesses" that compete for these resources: I’m trying to have a rewarding relationship with my wife, raise great kids, contribute to my community, succeed in my career, contribute to my church, and so on. And I have exactly the same problem that a corporation does. I have a limited amount of time and energy and talent. How much do I devote to each of these pursuits? > > Allocation choices can make your life turn out to be very different from what you intended. Sometimes that’s good: Opportunities that you never planned for emerge. But if you misinvest your resources, the outcome can be bad. As I think about my former classmates who inadvertently invested for lives of hollow unhappiness, I can’t help believing that their troubles relate right back to a short-term perspective. That resource of time, and where you put it, is so critical. 🙏 ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT133: Weekly Thing #133 / Clayton Christensen, iPad at 10, Ukraine, Nintendo Switch, Apple Map Expansion](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/133/), Must Read ## Same host - [Why the Most Productive People Don’t Always Make the Best Managers](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5787565f9681/) (hbr.org, October 15, 2019) - [Why Tech’s Approach to Fixing Its Gender Inequality Isn’t Working](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/beddf55dcc25/) (hbr.org, October 17, 2019) - [The Making of a Corporate Athlete](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5c1efec241a8/) (hbr.org, February 2, 2020) - [That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/230d6791e504/) (hbr.org, March 26, 2020) - [Want to Be More Productive? Try Doing Less.](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b894d6bc5e85/) (hbr.org, May 28, 2020) ## Saved the same week - [Ted Stein on Twitter: "Unintended Tesla app purchases, explored."](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6ee10f9951c1/) (twitter.com, January 29, 2020) - [Stripe — The Developer Coefficient: Software engineering efficiency and its $3 trillion impact on global GDP](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4ae2dc4bc17a/) (stripe.com, January 29, 2020) - [Can you point to Ukraine on a map? / Chris Zubak-Skees / Observable](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/627b75653927/) (observablehq.com, January 29, 2020) - [Finland is winning the war on fake news. Other nations want the blueprint](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0714db86d05d/) (edition.cnn.com, January 29, 2020) - [Daring Fireball: The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/18427e82af14/) (daringfireball.net, January 29, 2020) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life