Bill Burnett is an adjunct professor and the executive director of the Life Design Lab at Stanford. He earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in product design at Stanford and has worked at startups and Fortune 100 companies, including seven years at Apple, where he designed award-winning laptops, and several years in the toy industry. He holds many mechanical and design patents and design awards. In addition to his duties at Stanford, he advises several of his students’ startup companies. Forty-five years, five companies, and a couple of thousand students later, Burnett is still drawing and building things, teaching others how to do the same, and quietly enjoying the fact that no one has discovered that he is having too much fun.