RESOURCES I RECOMMEND
If you’re looking to learn more about career development, I’ve listed below a series of resources that can guide you. Many of them have helped me in my career; others have helped my colleagues in theirs.
BOOKS
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
I mentioned Designing Your Life earlier in this book because it contains so many nuggets of wisdom and strategic exercises to get unstuck. Burnett and Evans are professors of engineering at Stanford’s d.school, and here they apply the principles of design thinking, a process typically used to improve an object or experience, to everyday life and work. I think often about tools like “Odyssey Planning,” in which you map out ...
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