Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

How can design principles be used to live your life? Looking at purpose and prototyping are ideas that can be applied to life. In design, failure and rejection is just part of the process.

 In job seeking, the conventional route of applying to jobs is slow and leads to high rate of rejection. The "hidden job market" is a source of many jobs. "Networking" gets a bad word. A "design" approach involves talking to others to get a better understanding of the jobs and then decided what is intriguing to you. The actual job offer ends up flowing naturally.

A lot of the book seems to repeat various psychology and self-help principles. The design principles add a little nuance, but provides a big enough bucket that just about anything can fit in.