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
The aim is to make the product joyful and enjoyable to use.
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
You can be a rambler speaker, but a clear writer!
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
The process of writing is about reminding, learning and figuring out. it is mostly for the writer first.
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
Reaching the end of your intuition for your user base, without data you make a lot of mistakes on the product. You have to spend time with your customers.
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
We are solution providers - focus on the problem rather then the solution if you are giving feedback . state the reason
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
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
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
Julie advises not to write for your audience, write for you and find the angle that works for you.
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
product thinking/sense is all about observation. 1- Starting from personal observation While you are using a product, what was your emotions, or confusion, why did you download it in the first place. 2- look at next in circles, share with others discuss and dissect. 3- Then broader from the people who are writing on this, patterns, what works and w... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
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.
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
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.