Hacker Courses The online courses programmers keep recommending, ranked from 20 years of public forum comments.
i
#758 overall

Life Design

Stanford University

1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2022 · score 0.7

Search for it ↗

Stanford's Life Design course, taught through the Stanford d.school, applies design-thinking methods to personal decisions such as career, purpose, and reflection on experiences. It is aimed at helping people prototype and evaluate options for their own lives.

One commenter recommends it as a structured aid for self-reflection while restarting a tech career.

General Learningbeginner#design thinking#career planning#self-reflection#stanford d.school

Recommendations by year

20062026

What commenters said (1)

  1. Recommendskirso2022in “Ask HN: How to restart tech career from scratch at 36?”

    This is a process though... It takes lots of experiments & self-enquiry to reach this point, particularly evaluating the experiences but I believe this is the most rewarding thing that happens in life when we understand it.

    Seems like everyone wants to IPO these days, until you ask them what would happen if nobody else would know about their success and they wouldn't be allowed to communicate it.

    Anyways, PM roles can be great but are also not for everyone. Best thing is to try and see, same with product building.

    For self-reflection I recommend the Life Design Stanford course or Self-authoring by Jordan Peterson.

Related courses

Keyboard

In the course grid
←↑→↓
Move between courses
Home End
Start / end of row (with Ctrl: first / last)
PgUp PgDn
Jump several rows
Enter
Open course
S
Save / unsave course
1–5
Best, Trending, Hidden gems, Evergreen, Saved
[ ]
Previous / next topic
On a course page
← →
Previous / next course in your list
S
Save / unsave
O
Open the course website
Esc
Back to the grid
Everywhere
/
Search
T
Light / dark theme
?
This help