The Energy Crisis? Yeah, Yeah. I'm Not Clinically Depressed.

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I was a Stanford energy fellow in 1976. I was fully prepared to go and solve the world's energy crisis. All the ideas we had then are the ones we're using now, by the way. So when you do that, what pulls you out of that? Well, again, reality is very helpful. You know, at this point, what's happening in your bigger life? We just bought a house. And so being employed and making some money, we were going to get the family started pretty soon. If possible, you know, my wife really wanted to be at home with kids. But these computers just lie there in blank. They're very boring. When I lived in

Today’s guest, Dave Evans, is a lecturer at the famed Stanford d.School a theological scholar and management consultant. He is also a man on a mission to explore what it means to spend time designing your life.

As an early team-member at Apple, he led product marketing for the mouse and introduced laser printing to the masses.

He then joined gaming behemoth, Electronic Arts, as employee #2, before leaving to help start-up teams, corporate executives, non-profit leaders, and countless young adults build amazing ventures.

Along the way, he realized they were all asking the same question. “What should I do with my life?” Helping people get traction on that question finally took develop a groundbreaking course that applies design thinking to life, where he introduced the concept designing your life to students at Berkeley and then Stanford.

His latest book, Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-lived, Joyful Life, walks you through the entire, step-by-step process.

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