#686 — Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder of Asana and Facebook — Energy Management, Coaching for Endurance, No Meeting Wednesdays, Understanding the Real Risks of AI, Embracing Frictionless Work With AI, the Value of Holding Stories Loosely, and More - The Tim Ferriss Show  ## Metadata - Author: **The Tim Ferriss Show** - Full Title: #686 — Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder of Asana and Facebook — Energy Management, Coaching for Endurance, No Meeting Wednesdays, Understanding the Real Risks of AI, Embracing Frictionless Work With AI, the Value of Holding Stories Loosely, and More - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/bd3f87b8-1bfa-4a1e-9277-27215458b608 ## Highlights - The Making of a Manager: A Tactical Guide to Being a Manager by Julie Zoo Key takeaways: • A lot of people were publishing their experiences online about being a manager. • The catalyst for the speaker was a book by Julie Zoo, an old colleague from Facebook. • The book provided practical advice on how to be a manager. • Originally written for the speaker's team, the content was requested to be shared company-wide. • Including the content in onboarding was done with the intention of benefiting new employees. • The decision to share the content was influenced by the speaker's quirks. Transcript: Speaker 1 I think there was a sort of phase where a lot of people were doing this and publishing them online. And it's a coincided with the real catalyst for me was a book i can't remember the title i think it's the making of a manager but it's by julie zoo. Is an old colleague from facebook at the time and she was on the design leads there a great to sort of tactical book on how to be a manager includes julie's you know sort of guide to julie. And in the book it's sort of framed as this is for your immediate reports and i originally wrote the stock for them just for my team. They said hey this is great we really love for the whole company to actually be exposed to this. And so now it's included on boarding i don't really know how many is on is actually go through the whole thing and on boarding but i tried to make it kind of fun and interesting to read so. Hopefully some of them would and part of the reason we did that is because i have ([Time 0:14:06](https://share.snipd.com/snip/a9deb1b1-2f82-4cf3-b149-f3289022090e)) - How to Live Well to Work Hard Transcript: Speaker 2 That is if you could put a quote, a phrase, word, an image, anything on a billboard, metaphorically speaking, to get something in front of many, many, many, many people, what might you Put on that billboard? ([Time 1:43:33](https://share.snipd.com/snip/62e31b93-d88f-4020-9374-15ea04933d0d))