Designer on how to tell what you should be doing as your “work”:
“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.”
I don’t know about the “rest of your life” part (and she looks too young to really know), but certainly seems like a good idea/hint/metric/clue to what you might want to do “for this phase of your life” anyway.
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