What I wish the little voice in my head would say, and other threads
Hello readers,
It’s decorative gourd season, mf-ers! Also the start of Q4 which for many teams means the start of holiday seasonality or planning for next year. I hope you find plenty of optimism among the chaos!
When I look back at my posts the last month, a similar theme…
August’s weekly threads, in one tiny e-mail
Hello dear readers,
It’s the end of a weird summer; yet, life marches on. I have a first grader now, and sent her off on her first day of school wearing a uniform and a smile underneath a mask. On the work front, our team has been diving into the…
July’s weekly Twitter threads, in one little e-mail
Hi there,
I hope you’re enjoying popsicles and midriffs, balmy evenings and outdoor dining. After going through an eventful July with my family (Covid! Quarantines! Ankle fracture! NYC!) it’s good to be back at home and approaching some more regularity.
Last month, my head was all over the place, as…
June’s weekly Twitter threads, in one handy e-mail
Hello there,
You’re looking good. Yeah you.
It’s nice to see people again. It’s nice to do some work again in person
I’m deep in the muddy waters of execution, aka the “actually doing” part after you make a plan, so a lot of the past month’s threads are practical…
May’s weekly Twitter threads, in one handy e-mail
Hi there!
Here in California, the cherries are crimson sweet, Disneyland is making magic for families once more, and I’ve gotten to reunite with a few friends and tell them in person how much I’ve missed them.
Over the past month, our team has been growing in size, which has…
April’s weekly Twitter threads, in one handy e-mail
Hello dear readers,
I hope you are well, and healthy, and that the sound of spring rains give you pleasure. Over the past few months on my tweet thread journey, I meandered through embarrassing personal stories, company lore, and a metaphor or two.
What should be next in my topic…
The past month of essays-as-Twitter-threads, including: how do you delay a product launch? Why should managers learn other functions? And top 7 unintuitive things about growing your career.
Hello friends!
I hope the sun rays feel like smiles on your skin. I hope the spring air fills you with optimism. I hope you can hug your loved ones soon. Here’s the last month of essays-in-the-form-of-twitter-threads.
“My Identity = My Job”
Who tends to think this way? Why is it unhealthy? …
Five fun threads for the price of one newsletter email!
Welcome to the second edition of Weekly Essays in the Form of Twitter Threads.
As Shreyas Doshi, Grandmaster of Wise Product Tweets once told me, Twitter is a great medium for learning! Easy on the eyeballs, quick on the reshareability. And like some kind of chemist, you’re forced to distill…
In which we move to little thoughts in little chunks of words
It’s 2021! And I had every intention of writing an ode to the New Year, something warm and comforting with a touch of spice, like a good gumbo.
But then my toddler decided that his favorite thing to do now is open every drawer in the house and bulldoze the…
My first full-length novel, The Shadow Gods, was a story about a modern-day goddess of love who becomes a pawn in a high-stakes political game.
My second, The Chances, was about a cat-mouse-game between a pair of identical high school twins, one a detective and the other a thief.
My…
Julie Zhuo
Currently: Inspirit. Former Product Design VP @ FB. Author of The Making of a Manager https://amzn.to/2PRwCyW. Find me @joulee. I love people, words, and food.
