Designing Your Life
by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Mar 2026 on My First Million.
The general take
Bill Gurley found value in the career-planning framework from Designing Your Life, specifically highlighting the "battle carding" technique where you explore three to five potential career paths simultaneously rather than fixating on one. He presents it as a popular and practical method that lets your thinking develop over time.
About
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build— design— a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” — The New York Times Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are.
Who said what
Bill Gurley👍 Recommends
…discussing career exploration exercises from Designing Your Life
“Well, I mentioned the one that Tito had used. Um, the, the team that wrote Designing Your Life has, has one that they say is most popular, which is, is battle carding. So like come up with three to five potential career paths, not just one and let your brain roll around in them for a while.”
My First Million — Bill Gurley: 6 Out of 10 People Are Making This Mistakeat 15:36
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