Julie Zhuo
Building Sundial. Angel investor. Former Design VP @ FB. Author of "The Making of a Manager" https://t.co/6HwJhCW5Hi. Obsessed with systems. Design + data person.
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40 things I wish I knew when I was 20 1. For whatever action scares you (and isnβt life-threatening), remember this surefire way to eliminate the fear: do it 100 times.
If you surround yourself with great people, you're going to get better faster. But the price you pay is the constant feeling of inadequacy. 1/5
Is there a term for someone who geeks out on how to get to know someone better? Because I'm definitely in that club. So of course I looooove thinking about interview questions....
Designers have many superpowers, but one underrated one is that the work of design leads one to become more comfortable with uncertainty. How does this impact the product developm...
"Some people are simplifiers. You're a complexifier." This was a piece of feedback I received once from a colleague. Yeah, it burned. It felt like a shitty thing to say. Threa...
Companies are like people. Not sprawling networks of people (though technically that's right) Rather, thinking about a company as an individual makes many things easier to unders...
Before The Making of a Manager came out, my publishers and I had a chat that left me deeply uncomfortable. "Who are some business writers / leaders you admire?" they asked. Easy...
One of the stories we used to tell in the early days of Facebook was how a small, two-engineer project came to dominate the entire photo sharing landscape in the late 2000s. Threa...
"You were at one company for nearly 14 years?!?!" Yes, I'd say. Here's why: 1) I loved the people 2) I was continuously challenged and learning 3) The mission spoke to me 4) I fe...
I've participated in too many conversations about the role of design / pm / eng to count. Of course there are differences. But every tech manager role, regardless of discipline...
You're in a panic. Your launch date is in a week. Your whole team's credibility is riding on your collective ability to make it happen. Leadership is Eye-of-Sauron-ing this proje...
Seven incredibly non-intuitive things about growing your career, a thread π