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

Why HN readers recommended it

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

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

TEDx Talks

Topic

designing your life and career

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• > But who is “your” company and how do we pick the “niche”? Turns out, this is a common problem. Friendly Challenge: imagine 3 very different future niches for your team. Leveraging your interests, experience/expertise. Mix in the Clients you'll serve, Products you build, and …

• Turns out, the most interesting design problem is designing your life. Bill Burnett has a brilliant book on the subject. > [VIDEO]

• A great great book that helped me with this: Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans ( [LINK] ). I first got exposed to it during a career navigation workshop that showed us this video: [VIDEO] They also published a follow-up called Designing …