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What Reinventing Your Career (Twice) Actually Looks Like with Chris Nguyen

What Reinventing Your Career (Twice) Actually Looks Like with Chris Nguyen

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Jeremy catches up with friend of the show, Chris Nguyen, who’s rebuilt his business twice since his last appearance. They talk about why designers can’t count on job security the way they used to, what it actually takes to build something of your own, and why the perfect plan is a myth worth abandoning early.If you can’t count on your job to protect you, what are you doing to protect yourself?Chris Nguyen has already rebuilt his business once since he last joined the show, and by the time this episode airs, he’ll be in the middle of doing it again. He built UX Playbook into a recognized education brand, tried a community project called Backlog that fizzled out, took several months off to recover, and landed on Rectangles: a live-stream and newsletter brand built around the design conversations he wishes he’d had years ago. None of it happened on a straight line, and that’s kind of the point.Jeremy and Chris talk candidly about why designers can’t afford to treat a single employer as their whole safety net anymore. Jeremy’s own team recently made a drastic tooling change that upended how designers on his team work day to day, and he connects that disruption directly to a bigger argument: if the ground can shift under you that fast, having something outside your job, whether it’s a side project, a creative outlet, or a small business, isn’t optional anymore. It’s how you stay steady.The conversation keeps circling back to a simple, unglamorous truth: nobody has the plan figured out in advance. Chris talks about sitting on the Rectangles idea for the better part of a year before finally committing to a two-week sprint to get it out the door, and admits he still doesn’t fully know what it’ll become. Jeremy pushes on that idea with his own reflections on burnout, reinvention, and why doing something just for yourself, outside of work entirely, might be the most stabilizing thing a designer can do right now. Give this one a listen if you’ve been sitting on an idea and waiting for the right moment.Topics:• 03:16 – Catching up on 100 episodes and the never-ending edit grind• 05:33 – What Chris has been building since his last appearance• 06:20 – The funk, the time off, and the shift from product to media• 09:37 – Why running a media company means the content is the product• 11:36 – Chris breaks down what Rectangles actually is• 14:04 – Going beyond UX and UI into big D design• 15:26 – The early 90s aesthetic behind the Rectangles brand• 20:10 – Why Jeremy’s team just walked away from their Figma license• 22:42 – Designing straight into Cursor with a component library• 29:20 – The case for building income outside a single job• 32:36 – How UX education content has changed as the industry shifts• 34:22 – The unglamorous side of building something online• 52:56 – Why a latte art post outperformed a bias breakdown on LinkedIn• 57:03 – Chris’s closing advice on ideas versus execution• 58:23 – Consumption versus creation and why the balance matters• 58:43 – Where to find Chris and the Rectangles launch detailsHelpful Links:• Connect with Chris on LinkedIn• Subscribe to Rectangles• Get your UX Playbook—Thanks for listening! We hope you dug today’s episode. If you liked what you heard, be sure to like and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! And if you really enjoyed today’s episode, why don’t you leave a five-star review? Or tell some friends! It will help us out a ton.If you haven’t already, sign up for our email list. We won’t spam you. Pinky swear.• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get a FREE audiobook AND support the show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support the show on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out show transcripts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out our website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe on Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe on Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe on Stitcher⁠
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