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The alternative bucket list approach to life
  • January 24, 2018

I have never formally made a bucket list. Sure, there are things I would love to do and some more than others but I have never written anything down.


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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
  • February 8, 2018

I was really looking forward to this book as I had listened to a podcast where they explained the ideas behind it. The two authors run a design course in Stanford that gets massively oversubscribed and has a huge impact on those who take it by looking at life as a design problem. The aim is to come up with lots of possible routes for your life that could be awesome and then design a path to achieve one of them. If that doesn’t work you can use the same approach to look for new opportunities. I have not yet made the time to do the exercises and these are absolutely key to getting the most out of it.


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The unseen impact of the little trade-offs
  • April 27, 2018

I found this article to be a very astute observation that it can be all the “little trade-offs” that can add up to cause issues. The article highlights it from the perspective of a leader who can make small decisions, usually around putting something off or taking a short cut, that can add up to impact their work and those around them.


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