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🎥 Building Resilience in Your Design Career
Dear Reader,
Today's advice letter comes from Janko Jovanovic, Design Manager & Strategic Designer.
Last night, he gave a talk for our monthly meetup on how to use strategic & futures thinking to design a better career.
The talk was a great example of how non-linear thinking can help improve your career.
| Watch the Talk |
Janko covers:
- Career advice inspired by strategic & futures thinking
- Applying a Stoic framework to career changes
- Planning backwards on different time scales
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Until next week!
Jeff Humble
​Designer & Co-Founder
​The Fountain Institute
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P.S. If you want to network with people from the event, join the Guild of Working Designers Slack Community​
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