Bill Burnett: Designing your work fife

Bill Burnett: Designing your work fife

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Bill Burnett: How to Live a Meaningful Life

When we last spoke with Bill Burnett, it was in 2020 and he’d just published his book Designing Your Work Life, co-authored by Dave Evans. The world was in the midst of a pandemic, and work and careers seemed very uncertain. Along with their other bestselling book, Designing Your ...  Show more

Austin Kleon: Author of "Steal Like an Artist" on building a sustainable creative practice

To make good creative work, you’ll inevitably do a lot of bad work along the way. So building a thriving creative practice relies on showing up and doing the work consistently, whether you feel inspired or not. And we can get trapped into thinking that if only we had the perfect ...  Show more

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