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Unsent letter #47

To the corporate jobber with a faraway gaze

Jun 3, 2025

This is a paid subscribers post. I’m experimenting with sharing more personal writing with this smaller group, like little diary entries that feel too delicate into blast to the broader world. Please let me know your thoughts!

I see you for the fiftieth time and wonder, What the hell are you doing here?

It’s not because your work falls flat.

In fact, the work you show me, is smooth like river rocks. There is care in its making, a touch of personality even — a riff here in the content, a flourish there in the presentation.

But something is missing. A sparkle. A kind of dazzle that cannot come from more polishing

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Julie Zhuo
Julie Zhuo

Written by 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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