It’s time to rethink your entire life plan - Dave Evans - #1062

Feb 21, 2026 · 1h 48m

Dave Evans is an entrepreneur, early Apple engineer, former Electronic Arts executive, Stanford lecturer, and author. How does someone genuinely find meaning in their life? We’re often told that when things feel empty, uncertain, or painful, the answer is to “find more meaning”. But what does that actually mean? Is meaning something we discover, like a hidden truth waiting to be uncovered? Or is it something we construct through choice, responsibility, and attention? Expect to learn what people actually mean when we’re talking about meaning, the problem people are actually trying to solve when they say they want meaning, how to engineer more meaning into your life, what the difference between the problem-solving world and the meaning-making world is, what the red herrings are in terms of meaning, why so many people become objectively successful and subjectively miserable and much more… Timestamps: (0:00) How to Figure Out What You Want in Life (5:30) What Does Meaning Really Mean? (15:34) Making Sense of Life’s Changes (21:05) Reframing Fulfilment to Fully Enjoy Life (22:43) Are We Confusing Meaning With Feeling Alive? (28:41) Has Optimisation Killed the Magic of Meaning? (39:31) T…

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