hackertube.io

5 steps to designing the life you want | Bill Burnett | TEDxStanford

TEDx Talks · talk · Watch on YouTube

Productivity & self-improvementProduct & industrial design

What it is

TEDxStanford talk by Bill Burnett, executive director of Stanford's design program, on applying design thinking to your own life and career. He offers five practical tips such as getting curious, talking to people and trying things.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as a short intro to the Designing Your Life approach when people ask about career direction and finding meaningful work.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Highly recommend their book!”

    TEDx intro to designing your life, by authors of Design Your Life

    JSeymourATL, 2021-03 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: Hit a wall with our product team. What next?”

  2. “A great great book that helped me with this: Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans”

    Intro to Designing Your Life framework shown in a career workshop

    samh748, 2022-04 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: How to think about direction in life/career?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: design thinking, career, life design, tedx, prototyping, stanford

Also recommended by the same people