Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
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Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
- Product and feedback the more and the better. And everyone has an opinion and they are valid. the job is to prioritise and balance - the synthesis. There will be contradictions. be absolutely clear about who is the audience. What is the "job" this feature fulfills for this person. What
from Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management by Lenny Rachitsky
Gaye Soykok added 2y ago
- She then found the angle of a new manager going through and figuring it out. And also decided the process will make her a better manager.
from Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management by Lenny Rachitsky
Gaye Soykok added 2y ago
- Julie did not want to write a book at first until a publisher reached out. - she did not see a unique POV- she did not see herself as a writer's career
from Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management by Lenny Rachitsky
Gaye Soykok added 2y ago
- The process of writing is about reminding, learning and figuring out. it is mostly for the writer first.
from Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management by Lenny Rachitsky
Gaye Soykok added 2y ago
- You can be a rambler speaker, but a clear writer!
from Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management by Lenny Rachitsky
Gaye Soykok added 2y ago
- Julie was good at discussions in a small setting and withholding in a larger setting. She had to work on it and so she started something scary writing publicly on the internet. It helped with public sharing phobia as well as clarity in thinking and structuring.
from Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management by Lenny Rachitsky
Gaye Soykok added 2y ago
- Fighting impostor syndrome: Julie had it for 8 years- start in small place- embrace the fact that you are in a place where you do not know what to do - Embrace curiosity - Everyone feels it - Repetition and seeing patterns give confidence- Build your toolkit - Share and collaborate with other people.
from Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management by Lenny Rachitsky
Gaye Soykok added 2y ago
- The aim is to make the product joyful and enjoyable to use.
from Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management by Lenny Rachitsky
Gaye Soykok added 2y ago
- Julie had a journey through digital art - >collection - websites - computer engineering - >startups product on FB - design as a profession - > learn the craft - > Manage team of designers - Scale and Diversity (VP of design) - > startup founder.
from Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management by Lenny Rachitsky
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