It’s time to rethink your entire life plan - Dave Evans - #1062

You're the co-founder of Stanford's Life Design Lab. True. What's that? It's a little tiny operation inside the design program that applies the innovation principles of design thinking to the wicked problem of designing your life at and after university. So, oh, Bill and Dave realized we made all these products and all these different experiences using design thinking, started at Stanford back in 1963.

You know, and we used it at Apple in the early days and everybody's kind of the thing that built Silicon Valley. Hey, we could apply it to ourselves. We could design ourselves as well. You know, and that's a real problem people have. And we gave it a try and it seems to have worked out.

Do people not already try to design their life? Is that not what you do when you set a to-do list or have a calendar? So the word design. in the field of design really means there's two categories. There's what I would call craft design or engineering design and then there's design thinking.

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