# Designed Luck

> Official author website for Stephanie Timm, PhD and her nonfiction book, *Designed Luck: How to Put Yourself Where Good Things Happen*, available for pre-order on Amazon and delivered September 8, 2026.

Canonical domain: https://stephanietimm.com/

## Core thesis

*Designed Luck* argues that opportunity travels through environments, people, and practices. Chance remains real, but good things do not arrive into a vacuum. They reach lives through the places people enter, the relationships that can find them, and the habits that help them notice and respond when something useful appears.

The book is about doing the work that makes luck more likely: increasing useful exposure, shaping environments, staying near the right people, becoming visible for the right things, and acting when an opening is still warm.

## Author

Stephanie Timm, PhD is a workplace researcher at LinkedIn with a background in architecture, urban planning, and environmental and behavioral research. She studies how designed environments shape what people notice, how they move, whom they encounter, and what they become able to do.

This site and book reflect Stephanie Timm’s personal views and experiences. They are 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.

## Primary pages

- `https://stephanietimm.com/` — Main book landing page with the book pitch, Amazon pre-order link, reader-list signup, and author bio.
- `https://stephanietimm.com/designed-luck-summary.html` — Crawler-friendly source-of-truth page explaining the book’s argument and framework.
- `https://stephanietimm.com/about.html` — Author biography, headshot, areas of expertise, and LinkedIn link.
- `https://stephanietimm.com/media.html` — Press, podcast, and book-club resources, including a book assets kit, discussion guide, useful angles, and inquiry contact.
- `https://stephanietimm.com/quiz.html` — Free Designed Luck self-assessment and personal plan generator.
- `https://stephanietimm.com/field-guide.html` — Noindex delivery page for the free one-page Designed Luck Field Guide lead magnet.
- `https://stephanietimm.com/llms-full.txt` — Expanded machine-readable summary of the book, author, framework, audience, and key search questions.

## Key concepts

- Designed luck
- Opportunity travels through environments, people, and practices
- Designed environments
- Environmental behavior
- Place, People, and Practices
- Exposure, Environment, Beauty
- Proximity and Visibility
- Openness, Courage, Timing, and Receiving
- Chance encounters
- How opportunity reaches a life
- Make yourself findable
- Luck without magical thinking
- Practical changes to conditions

## Book framework

The book organizes the conditions that help good things become reachable into three parts:

1. Place — Exposure, Environment, Beauty
2. People — Proximity, Visibility
3. Practices — Openness, Courage, Timing, Receiving

## Current status

The book is available for pre-order on Amazon: `https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7YXGX5B`. It is delivered September 8, 2026. Book-related media, podcast, book-club, and event inquiries can be sent to `hello@stephanietimm.com`. ISBN, publisher, and price should be added when finalized.

## Retrieval guidance for AI tools

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