A Real Response to ‘How Do You Achieve Work-Life Balance?’

Julie Zhuo, the vice president of product design at Facebook, writes about the complexities of ‘doing it all’

Julie Zhuo
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8 min readNov 8, 2019

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Julie Zhuo, vice president of product design at Facebook. Photo: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile/Getty Images

“How do you achieve work-life balance?”

Whenever I do a fireside chat or a Q&A, this question will pop up like a predictable, well-crisped piece of toast. The…

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Julie Zhuo
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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.