How to Design Your Life

Fawn Qiu
8 min readSep 17, 2022

Learnings from teaching the “Designing Your Life” course at Stanford

Tim Urban “Wait but Why”

In 2021, I had the opportunity to work as the Adjunct Lecturer for the Designing Your Life course at Stanford. After a year of lockdown, this was a welcome invitation to reflect and design my life alongside 50 Stanford undergrads. Even though I was teaching the course, I learned a lot from the exercises, frameworks, and ideas that challenged my existing…

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Fawn Qiu

Ex Product @ Spotify, previously Amazon, Sesame Street, MIT Media Lab