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Julie Zhuo

The Looking Glass: The Valuable Employee Paradox

The good, bad and ugly of hierachy

Jan 30

The Looking Glass: The Valuable Employee Paradox

Jan 30

The Looking Glass: What Aladdin Should have Wished For

A letter to my daughter about happiness

Dec 26, 2024

The Looking Glass: What Aladdin Should have Wished For

Dec 26, 2024

The Looking Glass: All the world is made of trust

That, and faith, and pixie dust.

Oct 10, 2024

The Looking Glass: All the world is made of trust

Oct 10, 2024

The Looking Glass: Sharpening Judgement

The art of making better decisions

Sep 12, 2024

The Looking Glass: Sharpening Judgement

Sep 12, 2024

The Looking Glass: The Curse of Perfect

In the house that I grew up in, there was a formula for the American Dream.

Aug 28, 2024

The Looking Glass: The Curse of Perfect

Aug 28, 2024

The Looking Glass: Managing your Manager

Stop tolerating mediocre management

Aug 6, 2024

The Looking Glass: Managing your Manager

Aug 6, 2024

The Looking Glass: Culture Changers

More like a forest, less like a Stonehenge. A deep dive into what culture really is, and how you can go about evolving it.

Jul 17, 2024

The Looking Glass: Culture Changers

Jul 17, 2024

The gifts of 40

Unintuitive life lessons I wish I'd learned earlier

Jun 28, 2024

The gifts of 40

Jun 28, 2024

The Looking Glass: Holding Up the Mirror

The what, why, how and art of giving and receiving feedback

May 31, 2024

The Looking Glass: Holding Up the Mirror

May 31, 2024

The Looking Glass: The Origins of Leadership and Burnout

The hero's journey, and where things go wrong

Apr 16, 2024

Apr 16, 2024

The Looking Glass: The Stories That Become History

In celebration of some of the women that set the bar for me

Mar 29, 2024

The Looking Glass: The Stories That Become History

Mar 29, 2024

The Looking Glass: Faith and skepticism

The limitations of executive functioning; invention and certainty; management as faith

Mar 8, 2024

Mar 8, 2024

The Looking Glass: The Paradoxes of Data

Practical, magical, uncertain, and yet a tool for the most decisive

Feb 16, 2024

Feb 16, 2024

The Looking Glass: Chains of Assumptions (Part 2)

Imagining what dream collaboration looks like

Jan 31, 2024

The Looking Glass: Chains of Assumptions (Part 2)

Jan 31, 2024

The Looking Glass: The Year of Everyday Risks

Aliveness, dullness and taking career risks

Jan 17, 2024

Jan 17, 2024

The Looking Glass: Chains of Assumptions

How to avoid the false veneer of perfection

Dec 12, 2023

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Dec 12, 2023

The Looking Glass: How to tell if work is beautiful

What is beauty? Why is nature beautiful? The case for making beautiful things

Nov 16, 2023

The Looking Glass: How to tell if work is beautiful

Nov 16, 2023

The Looking Glass: What company politics actually is

What you and your biggest work adversary have in common; the magic incantation in times of conflict; and 5 steps for disagreeing…

Oct 24, 2023

The Looking Glass: What company politics actually is

Oct 24, 2023

The Looking Glass: So you want to write better?

A long-form piece on some age-old misconceptions

Oct 4, 2023

The Looking Glass: So you want to write better?

Oct 4, 2023

The Looking Glass: Get Over Yourself

The most important thing my manager ever told me; we vs. me mentality; the future of AI-powered user experiences

Sep 20, 2023

The Looking Glass: Get Over Yourself

Sep 20, 2023

Julie Zhuo

Julie Zhuo

Building Sundial (sundial.so). Former Product Design VP @ FB. Author of The Making of a Manager. Find me @joulee. I love people, nuance, and systems.

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