#49 Do you want it because you want it or because you think everyone else wants it

On mistrusting yourself, because of the internet

For the past however many years I’ve read somewhat religiously The Broadsheet, which is a cleverly-named female-focused newsletter from Fortune (Tagline: “The daily dish on the world’s most powerful women”). This week, it linked out to an NYT article about some drama at Chief, which is a venture-backed start-up, now valued at over a billion dollars and one of the few female-founded ventures considered a Unicorn.

Chief is a private membership network for powerful women—members pay about $8,000 a year for access to other female officers, mentorship, education, and events (Michelle Obama and Amal Clooney are examples of past private speakers according to the Times). The article, “Turmoil at Chief, a women’s networking organization, raises a long-simmering question: Is amassing power for corporate women a worthy goal in itself?”, is worth reading if you’re interested in this kind of thing, which I am, but the upshot of it is that here sits an extremely influential community of women, who …