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Designing Your Life

Thanks to Dirk I currently work my way through the book of the two Stanford professors Dave Evans and Bill Burnett called Designing Your Life. It shows how to apply design thinking principles to your own life. The goal of the framework is defined like this: When you have a

What is work?

While doing The Workview exercise in the Designing Your Life book I made a profound personal realization. It was triggered by the question: What is work? I answered: “Through work we participate in the human enterprise to run societies. Humans have demand for security, food, shelter, information, medical treatments, leisure,

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