Dave Evans

Everybody's so busy and there's so much going on.

You're going to learn that it's not about cramming more stuff in.

It's about getting more out of what you've already got and what you can design for.

And I think that helps people just relax and understand that they probably have enough.

Particularly amongst the students, and I've taught at Stanford and I've taught all over the place, and we've got over 600 schools now teaching the class.

With the students, it's really clear, and it's gotten kind of worse lately in the last five or six or seven years.

social media and other things.

Will I have a good life?

Will I find a good job in it?

I want meaning and purpose, but people tell me jobs aren't purposeful.

The Gallup poll says 70% of Americans are disengaged from their job.

Is that the world I'm going into?

Is it going to be that bad?

And so for the students, it's that kind of anxiety about how do I get started?

And I had been in office hours for students for years and years and years before Dave and I decided to put this together.

And it seemed clear to me that designing the new thing in the world, because I've been teaching designers to design iPhones and iPads and websites and things for years, designing the new thing in the world was just like designing the you.

What am I going to be in my future?

So everybody had that problem.

And then we started working with folks in, you know, some mid-careers, 35, 45.

And they're having the same question.