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🔧Prototype Build Sprint

Designing Your LifeLife Designers · Skill Sprint · 90-Min SprintMedium

for the one with a prototype designed but never built

Goal

Build the smallest real-world version of a life you're considering in 90 minutes.

Source principle

You can't think your way into a life; build forward through small real-world tries. : from Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans.

The plan

  1. 📋
    0:00-0:10
    Pull last week's prototype design. The one you never built.
  2. 🔬
    0:10-0:15
    Cut it to the smallest buildable version. 60 minutes max.
  3. ✏️
    0:15-0:20
    Write the first physical move. The literal first action.
  4. ▶️
    0:20-1:20
    Build it. No research, no polish. Just doing.
  5. 📓
    1:20-1:25
    Log energy / engagement / flow. 0–10 each.
  6. 💡
    1:25-1:27
    One surprise. What was different from imagined?
  7. 🤔
    1:27-1:28
    Keep / drop / iterate. One word.
  8. 📅
    1:28-1:30
    Calendar the next slightly bigger version.

Reward

One built thing. That's the prize.

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