Sagmeister: are you ready to take one year off every 7 working years?

Arman Suleimenov
1 min readNov 21, 2013

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Most of us live our lives following the fairly predictable trajectory:

Have you ever thought about adopting this trajectory instead where you distributed some number (five in this example) of those retirement years among the working years?

In his TED talk New York-based designer Stefan Sagmeister argues that it’s not only enjoyable, but also absolutely terrific to regain perspective and refresh your creative capacity. I’m in, are you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNuOmTQdFjA

If this essay is any useful, it would mean a lot to me if you scrolled down and recommended it.

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Arman Suleimenov

Managing Director, Pinemelon.com. Founder, nFactorial.School. Past: Hora.AI, N17R, Zero To One Labs, Princeton CS, YC S12 team, ACM ICPC World Finals '09, '11.