Jason Feifer. Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing Your Career. Harmony Books. New York: 2022.

Learn a model for looking at change and adaptation which involves 4 stages:

  • Panic
  • Adaptation
  • New Normal
  • Wouldn't Go Back

And ways you can use this model to improve how change impacts you and others. The book outline serves as a great hook.

Interview:

Book Outline

  • Introduction
  • Panic
    • You come from the future
    • Why we keep panicking
    • Extrapolate the gain
    • Use yesterday for what it was, not for what it wasn't
  • Adaptation
    • What you do and why you do it
    • The difference between what and why
    • Widen your bands
    • Change before you must
    • Work your next job
  • New Normal
    • Treat failure as data
    • First to failure, first to solutions
    • will it help me or hurt me?
    • Build a bridge to familiarity
    • The Theory of Theories
    • What is this for?
    • What a selfie is really for
  • Wouldn't Go Back
    • Reconsider the possible
    • The lurking danger of what we don't know
    • Get to the second time
    • The "99% there" problem
    • Permission to forget
  • Appendix: Build Your Tomorrow
    • Using this book
    • Examples