Careless People Made Me Like Sheryl Sandberg

Careless People is a very enjoyable book, and, depending on who you talk to (and presumably based on how much Meta stock they still own), people with knowledge of the events in the book either strongly agree with author Sarah Wynn-Williams or they say she’s full of shit. But in the course of her scathing assessment of building one of the most dangerous and powerful political tools in history, she also did something magical: She made me like Sheryl Sandberg. As a woman, I know it is offensive to say I never much cared for Sheryl Sandberg, the former COO of Meta and the person everyone agrees made the company a monstrous success. I was there in the early 2010s when “I went to a live reading of Lean In” was a bragging right amongst professional women who were all eager to prove that they too had the stuff to build something ambitious while never fully joining the boy’s club. Like a vision out of 1980s Hollywood, Sandberg was a working woman, decked out in stylish power suits, with a plat ... Read full article.