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Lenny's Podcast · June 7, 2022 · 58m

Julie Zhuo on Accelerating Your Career, Impostor Syndrome, and Building Product Sense

Julie Zhuo

Former Facebook VP of Design Julie Zhuo discusses how to accelerate career growth, manage impostor syndrome, build product sense through repetition, and the transition from individual contributor to manager.

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Impostor syndrome is not a bug but a signal that you are growing — you feel like a fraud because you are operating at the edge of your competence
Zhuo reframes impostor syndrome: instead of treating it as a psychological problem to fix, recognize it as a signal that you are in a learning zone. If you never feel like an impostor, you have probably stopped growing.
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Highlights

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Product sense is not a talent you are born with but a skill built through thousands of reps of predicting outcomes and checking results
Zhuo argues that product sense — the intuition for what users want — is not innate talent but a skill developed through deliberate practice. Specifically, it is built by repeatedly predicting what users will do, then observing what they actually do, and calibrating your mental models.
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