Birsel proposes breaking down your life into its most basic building blocks and laying out all the different elements that make up how you spend your time. With that mapped out, “you get to choose what you want in your life – what to keep, what to leave out, and what to change. Your choices will determine the kind of life you are designing.” By... See more

If I look at things that have turned out well in my life (my marriage, some of my essays, my current career) the “design process” has been the same in each case. It has been what Christopher Alexander called an unfolding .1 Put simply:

• I paid attention to things I liked to do, and found ways to do more of that. I made it easy for interesting people

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