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Simone Stolzoff

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in San Francisco, The United States

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https://www.simonestolzoff.com/

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Nonfiction, Business, Psychology

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February 2023

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Simone Stolzoff is an author and designer from San Francisco. A former design lead at the global innovation firm IDEO, his work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and on the TED Stage. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania.

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	The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work 4.12 avg rating — 9,010 ratings — published 2023 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands Answers 4.27 avg rating — 296 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Other Side of Change is the perfect book for this moment. What I appreciated most was that it wasn't a series of prescriptive tips or "how-tos." Rather, the book is a series of engrossing stories. I, for one, learn so much more through narrative ...more
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Simone Stolzoff liked Amanda's review of How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands Answers: "Simone Stolzoff's new book is an insightful, easy-to-read exploration of the art and science of uncertainty in life. The book is split into three main sections - Comfort, Hubris, and Control - that cover the most common reasons people shy away from u" Read more of this review »
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Simone Stolzoff and 1 other person liked Charlie Kubal's review of How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands Answers: "the rare book on uncertainty that doesn't try to sell you certainty by the end of it :) very well written, easy to read with great tidbits and supporting examples: an sf tech worker whose life had become too predictable, so he built a system to random" Read more of this review »
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“We seek status because we don’t know our own preferences,” Agnes Callard, a philosopher at the University of Chicago, told me. “When we don’t trust our own definition of what is good, we let other people define it for us.”
― Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

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“Work will always be work. Some people work doing what they love. Other people work so that they can do what they love when they’re not working. Neither is more noble.”
― Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

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“We shouldn’t work less just because it allows us to be better workers. We should work less because it allows us to be better humans.”
― Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

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