Designing Your Life
A practical book that treats life choices like design problems: iterative, testable, and less fragile than perfectionism allows.
Burnett and Evans take Stanford design thinking and apply it to life planning, which is a fancy way of saying they teach you to panic less and prototype more. I support that agenda completely.
What stayed with me
What stayed was the permission to experiment. The book keeps insisting that a life can be designed through tests, conversations, and iterative moves rather than one definitive act of certainty.
What it changed
It changed how I think about planning. Plans became less like declarations and more like hypotheses. That made movement easier because it reduced the emotional cost of revision.
Why I still keep it on the shelf
I still think about this book whenever someone talks about being stuck. Often the next step is not a giant answer. It is a well-designed experiment.
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