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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
Useful tips for charismatic "people people". Recommended for anyone who already knows what the type of work they want to be doing and just needs a helpful structure to force them to acknowledge that, explore possibilities they thought were off the table, exercise their existing people prowess, and aggressively go after the life they want.
Not recommended for anyone whose capabilities don't fit well into a specific discipline (medicine, architecture, etc., whose charisma is limited, or who is burnt out or in recovery from any kind of trauma. I would seriously recommend the authors consider researching and creating a new version for people who are not highly-energetic, secure-in-their-choice-of-discipline upper middle class extroverts. Create a system that works for combat veterans and people who've been through domestic violence, for example, and you have something that could actually work and make more money.
I love the idea of prototyping to revise your life. This book lacked good methodologies and examples for small prototypes (there wee a few but it needs to get unstuck from the idea of a master plan). It also offered no advice whatsoever on building a network. The cliche of "asking people about their journey" is so overused in California tech and management culture, it shows up as a joke in TV shows now.
I appreciated some key takeaways here but ultimately found this book very frustrating and useful only for a limited audience who isn't me.
Not recommended for anyone whose capabilities don't fit well into a specific discipline (medicine, architecture, etc., whose charisma is limited, or who is burnt out or in recovery from any kind of trauma. I would seriously recommend the authors consider researching and creating a new version for people who are not highly-energetic, secure-in-their-choice-of-discipline upper middle class extroverts. Create a system that works for combat veterans and people who've been through domestic violence, for example, and you have something that could actually work and make more money.
I love the idea of prototyping to revise your life. This book lacked good methodologies and examples for small prototypes (there wee a few but it needs to get unstuck from the idea of a master plan). It also offered no advice whatsoever on building a network. The cliche of "asking people about their journey" is so overused in California tech and management culture, it shows up as a joke in TV shows now.
I appreciated some key takeaways here but ultimately found this book very frustrating and useful only for a limited audience who isn't me.