David Johnson Shows Us How Use Design Thinking to Make Fulfilling Career Shifts

The Lawyer's Escape Pod

David Johnson is a lawyer, writer and professor at Stanford Law School. He started his career working in house at tech companies, received a JSM in Law, Science, and Technology and now (among other things) teaches a course on design thinking as applied to negotiations at Stanford Law. Dave talks to us first about how he got into academia outside the tenure-track, and gives us some great tips around finding adjunct professor positions. Then Dave lays out the framework for using Design Thinking to help move you towards a fulfilling career shift.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How David got into academia as non-tenure track professor
• Tips on getting into adjunct teaching
• David started an online course (MOOC) that ended up getting licensed to Microsoft
• If you want to do something, don’t think too hard about where it’s taking you. Just do it.
• Specific tips on applying design thinking to career and personal development
• The importance of enduring, engaging, and embracing ambiguity
• Bill Gates’ quote: “People overestimate what they can do in 1 year, but underestimate what they can do in 10 years”

You can find David Johnson on . . .

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/djohnsonllc/

Blog: https://climate-activist.com/

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