
Was vice president of product design at Facebook; wrote The Making of a Manager (2019).
1 book of their own · 69 articles · 12 books they recommend · 39 appearances
What a new manager needs to know about leading people, meetings, hiring and feedback.
Recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Jake Knapp, Stewart Butterfield
The Making of a Manager | What a new manager needs to know about leading people, meetings, hiring and feedback. | 2019 | T4 | Ali Abdaal, Jake Knapp, Stewart Butterfield |
How Pixar kept a creative company working after success, and the habits it used.
Also recommended by: Jim Collins, Alexis Ohanian, Allen Gannett and 10 others
Management as production: a manager's output is the output of the team they lead.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Tim Ferriss, Andrew Chen and 23 others
Why few women reach senior roles, and what women and firms can do about it.
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Richard Branson and 2 others
People who think ability grows with effort learn more than those who think it fixed.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Alex and Books and 12 others
Kahneman's synthesis of behavioral economics is the cognitive science underpinning every negotiation tactic. Anchoring, loss aversion, framing effects, and the planning fallacy — understanding why these biases operate, not just that they exist, makes you harder to exploit and more honest about your own irrationality.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charles de Vaulx and 31 others
The book that introduced affordances, signifiers, and feedback loops to a generation of designers. Norman's analysis of why doors, phones, and stoves confuse people is the clearest argument that bad design is a systems failure, not user error. Everything else on this list builds on this vocabulary.
Also recommended by: Ran Segall, Andrew Chen, Garry Tan and 8 others
Subtitled 'Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers'
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Balaji S. Srinivasan and 33 others
How shared fictions such as money, nations and gods let humans cooperate at scale.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai and 37 others
End-of-life and hospice care, and why medicine should aim at well-being.
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Gates
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Patrick Collison, David Kadavy
| What would make AI truly social? | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2026-10-13 |
| What would make AI truly social? | Medium | Blog post | 2026-10-13 |
| What will we use our minds for? Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2026-10-07 |
| What will we use our minds for? | Medium | Blog post | 2026-10-07 |
| What will make personal AI go big? Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2026-09-24 |
| What will make personal AI go big? | Medium | Blog post | 2026-09-24 |
| AI for No Good Reason Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2026-09-17 |
| AI for No Good Reason | Medium | Blog post | 2026-09-17 |
| How to Stop Complaining About Your Software Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2026-09-09 |
| How to Stop Complaining About Your Software | Medium | Blog post | 2026-09-09 |
| You Cannot Mandate an AI Transformation Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2026-09-01 |
| You Cannot Mandate an AI Transformation | Medium | Blog post | 2026-09-01 |
| Eye, Hand, AI: a letter to my daughter | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2026-08-05 |
| Eye, Hand, AI: a letter to my daughter | Medium | Blog post | 2026-08-05 |
| How life was different during the early Internet | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2026-07-06 |
| How life was different during the early Internet | Medium | Blog post | 2026-07-06 |
| To All the Folks Who Are About to Be Rich Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2026-06-13 |
| To All the Folks Who Are About to Be Rich | Medium | Blog post | 2026-06-13 |
| The Art and Excellence of Sales | Medium | Blog post | 2026-06-09 |
| I am an idiot | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2026-04-21 |
| What It Actually Takes to Trust AI With Your Data | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2026-03-26 |
| The Data Job isn't Dying Because the Trust Problem is Exploding | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2026-02-17 |
| Playing Authentic Games Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2026-01-15 |
| The Lost Art of Crying | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2025-11-06 |
| Unsent Letter #25 Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2025-09-16 |
| You're definitely going to be a manager now | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2025-09-09 |
| The Making of a Founder Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2025-08-21 |
| Unsent Letter #11 Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2025-07-02 |
| When AI Has Better Taste Than You | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2025-06-24 |
| Unsent letter #47 Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2025-06-03 |
| The Looking Glass: Unintuitive, lying truths Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2023-08-01 |
| The Looking Glass: Higher Level Design Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2023-07-17 |
| The Looking Glass: the biggest reasons I failed to influence Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2023-06-15 |
| The Looking Glass: Love the problem Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2023-06-02 |
| The Looking Glass: The Most Operationalized Product Teams Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2023-05-18 |
| The Looking Glass: 7 Questions to Impress Your Boss Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2023-05-04 |
| The Looking Glass: What AI Won't Change Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2023-04-20 |
| The Looking Glass: You Cannot Teach Wisdom Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2023-04-07 |
| The Looking Glass: Fear of What Others Think Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2023-03-26 |
| The Looking Glass: The Loudest Way to Lead Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2023-03-14 |
| The Looking Glass: Reader Empathy and Weird People Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2023-02-27 |
| The Looking Glass: Prioritize until it hurts Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2023-02-15 |
| The Looking Glass: 2 Motivations and No Truths Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2023-02-06 |
| The Looking Glass: Fundraising, AI and Little Snacks Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2023-01-27 |
| Once More, With Feeling Paywall | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2023-01-16 |
| The Looking Glass: Elephants, Blind Men, and that One 15-Minute Trick | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2022-12-01 |
| The Looking Glass: Back on the Saddle | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2022-11-11 |
| The Looking Glass: What Incentives Good Work? | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2021-11-16 |
| The Looking Glass: If someone's gonna do it, why not you? | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2021-10-05 |
| The Cost of Self-Improvement | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2021-09-02 |
| The Looking Glass: Handy Lists for Your Everyday | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2021-08-06 |
| The Looking Glass: All About Execution | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2021-07-01 |
| The Looking Glass: Why we do what we do | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2021-05-27 |
| The Looking Glass: Cringe stories | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2021-04-30 |
| The Looking Glass: My Identity = My Job | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2021-04-02 |
| Products, Politics, Eyes, Networks, oh my | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2021-03-11 |
| The Looking Glass: New Year, New Form | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2021-01-29 |
| The Words Count | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2020-11-30 |
| Don't Let the Trolls Win | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2020-11-10 |
| Seeking the Roots | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2020-09-30 |
| Truth, Context, and Social Media | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2020-09-02 |
| A User Guide To Working With You | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2020-08-07 |
| Seven Reminders about Racism | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2020-07-01 |
| Candidates, Companies, and the Matchmaking Problem | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2020-05-21 |
| The Nag Metric | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2020-04-30 |
| Managing Remotely | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2020-04-07 |
| Stay Healthy. Stay Data-Informed. | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2020-03-17 |
| The Looking Glass: Changes and Confidence | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2020-02-26 |
| The Looking Glass Mailing List | The Looking Glass | Newsletter issue | 2019-09-17 |
| Facebook's Julie Zhuo: She's not just pushing pixels Paywall | Fortune | 2014 |