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Month: June 2017

Reframe

Reframe

I previously talked about my 5 Design Rules to Live By, drawn from the design mind-sets from Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. Today, I would like to talk about Rule 3 – reframing (and I promise that it will be much shorter than Rule 2). What is reframing? Try doing this really quick exercise. Find a spot that you are fairly familiar with. Now physically rearrange yourself so that…

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Have a Bias to Action

Have a Bias to Action

I previously talked about my 5 Design Rules to Live By, drawn from the design mind-sets from Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. Today, I would like to talk about Rule 2 – having a bias to action. Engineers are typically very risk averse. We’re trained to know what it is we want to accomplish, have a detailed plan, and to deliver something that is fail-proof. Old office culture would…

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