Designed Luck — Book Assets
Stephanie Timm, PhD

Contact
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Book
Designed Luck: How to Put Yourself Where Good Things Happen
By Stephanie Timm, PhD
Publication date: September 8, 2026
Pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7YXGX5B

Approved book description
Designed Luck is a practical, research-informed book about how useful people, ideas, invitations, and opportunities reach us—and how to shape the conditions that make luck more likely.

The biggest things in life rarely arrive on command. You cannot control which conversation, role, friendship, or ordinary exchange changes things. But you can shape the environments, people, and practices that give good things more ways to reach you. Drawing on environmental and behavioral research, Stephanie Timm shows how Place, People, and Practices shape what we notice, whom we encounter, and how we respond when something useful appears.

Author bio
Stephanie Timm, PhD is a workplace researcher at LinkedIn with a background in environmental and behavioral research. Trained in architecture and urban planning, she has spent her career asking one question of the places we build: did we design for what we thought we designed for?

Her work studies how spaces shape what people notice, how they move, whom they encounter, and what they become able to do. She uses surveys, interviews, sensors, experiments, and close observation to understand the gap between a place on paper and a place in use.

Designed Luck is her first book. It brings an environmental lens to a larger human question: if chance remains outside our control, how can we arrange the conditions that help more useful people, ideas, conversations, and opportunities reach us?

Stephanie lives in Silicon Valley with her husband and two daughters.

Independence note
This author site reflects Stephanie’s personal views and experiences. It is not sponsored by, affiliated with, or endorsed by LinkedIn Corporation, Microsoft, or any other organization mentioned. References to employers, platforms, or organizations are included for biographical or illustrative purposes only.

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