You won’t be surprised to know that I sit on the boards of exactly no companies (billion dollar ones or otherwise), I haven’t dressed up for work in three years, and my coworkers are more likely to spit chewed raisins into my hand than to offer me stock options (my mother is wondering why I even have raisins in my house. If you haven’t, she is the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook (and made a whopping $845 million last year), and now become something of a spokesperson for equality for women in the workplace. Like Gretchen Rubin says, it’s sometimes more useful to learn from one person’s very specific experiences than broad generalizations.Īnyway, all that aside, you’ve probably heard of Sheryl Sandberg and Lean In Women, Work, and the Will to Leadlong before this review of it. But I did find a lot of the ideas worthwhile and I loved seeing how one person lives their life. When I read Zero Waste Home, for instance, I wasn’t suddenly about to shoot for one quart jar of trash per year. One thing I’ve come to realize recently about non-fiction is that I don’t have to agree with everything the author says to really find a book interesting and worthwhile.
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