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How Will You Measure Your LifeBook

by Clayton M. Christensen, 2012

Who uses, recommends or left How Will You Measure Your Life, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Jason Evanish
Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company; former product lead at KISSmetrics who writes about leadership and product management.
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If you're a high achiever, workaholic, career-oriented person, it's easy to forget to take stock of your life and what's important. Better known for his books on Innovation, Christensen does an excellent job of taking concepts we're used to applying in the workplace and using them to reflect on the rest of our lives. Clayton hammers home a simple, but important message: You can have a great career and be a great husband/wife/father/mother, but you must put the effort and focus into both.

His continuously-updated books page, where every book he reads gets a 1-10 rating and a "Why Read it" note; the book links carry his Amazon affiliate tag. The page carries no publication date for individual entries — its own metadata gives article:published_time 2012-12-16 and article:modified_time 2020-10-28, and books were added across that whole span. (undated page)

2020-10-28·jasonevanish.com ↗

Radek Pietruszewski
Programmer and writer. Keeps a running list of the non-fiction he reads, starring the ones he recommends.
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Ideas from Clay Christensen’s business theory (disruption theory etc.) applied as lenses to look at life.

On his public list of books he has read, with his notes.

2015-01-01·radex.io ↗

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Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.