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Designing Your LifeBook

by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

Who uses, recommends or left Designing Your Life, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Aman Khan
AI product manager at Arize AI; previously worked on product at Spotify, Apple and Cruise.
recommended

another one which is maybe like a little bit more in the like career lens is the this book called designing your life

Lenny's Podcast, "Becoming an AI PM", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions). Later in the answer the guest says they recommend its exercise to anyone stuck in their career.

2024-11-14·youtube.com ↗

Nicole Forsgren
Researcher of developer productivity; co-author of Accelerate and co-creator of the DORA and SPACE frameworks; earlier at Microsoft Research and GitHub.
recommended

another one is designing your life by uh Bill Burnett and Dave Abbott Dave Evans

Lenny's Podcast, "How to measure and improve developer productivity", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).

2023-07-30·youtube.com ↗

Ada Chen Rekhi
Executive coach and co-founder of Notejoy; previously a marketing executive at SurveyMonkey and LinkedIn.
recommended

The next book that I also recommend is a book called Designing Your Life. And it's out of the Stanford Design School and it's by um Let me look. Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.

Lenny's Podcast, "How to make better decisions and build a joyful career", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).

2023-04-16·youtube.com ↗

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