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 the final rule, Rule 5 – radical collaboration. What is it and why is it important? Radical collaboration, simply put, means that you aren’t alone. When you are confronted by a problem, it is easy to get absorbed in our…
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 4 – knowing it’s a process. What is it? “Knowing it’s a process” is being aware that you are on a journey. It is recognizing that the journey has many steps to it, and if you are aware of…
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…
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…
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 1 – being curious. Why should you care about curiosity? Curiosity is a powerful, valuable skill that can have wide ranging impacts to our lives, including many health benefits. Thanks to a phenomenon called neuroplasticity, our brains have the continuous ability to…
Today I would like to introduce to you what I’ve been calling the 5 Design Rules. First, here’s some background: I have a pretty long commute to work. It takes me about an hour in normal traffic to get to work and home every day. So a while back, I decided to use that time more productively by listening to more podcasts and audiobooks. That’s how I found myself listening to Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful…