The Future of a Human Experience

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There is no linear line. This is wayfinding versus navigation. GPS works because in a where I am where I'm going and all the data about everything in between so I can get you right where you're going. That's GPS. But in the future of a human experience, particularly being the person you're growing into, I should have it all figured out. Well, that means the person you want to become two, five, ten years from now, you can anticipate out of the person you wanted today. Which you can't. So we've got to build our way for it.

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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