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"Whatever Is Inside Will Change My Life" / Laura Jones (CMO Instacart)

1 May 2026 · 1 min

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Laura Jones realized in her mid-20s that combining her analytical and creative sides would make her whole. She found her way to Stanford's d.school, and when she arrived at the modest trailer, she touched it and said,

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And I had this realization in my kind of mid-20s that if I could connect my right brain and my left brain, connect my analytical thinking with my creative spirit, I would be the best version of myself. So then I kind of went on like a journey to figure out like how I could do that. What would that look like? What careers were there out there that would let me do that? And through a winding path that led me exactly to this moment I had heard about the d.school from a friend at the time, and it sounded very official. It had a website. But when I got there, it was quite literally in a trailer kind of off on the side of campus with a, you know, just kind of a printed sign strung up on the trailer. And it wasn't even open, sadly, when I got there. But I did, I kind of laid my hands on the side of this trailer and I just said, "Whatever is inside here, I think it's gonna change my life."