i don't think you're allowed to do that with cleaning products
Hello earthlings!
Let’s just dive in:
A female investor recently told me that she was on a pitch call with an entrepreneur when she watched him began licking the cap to a bottle of bleach. “I don’t think you’re allowed to do that with cleaning products,” she told me.
But I guess it turned out well for Sarah Cooper?
In other news, I’m FLYING across the world tomorrow, which has prompted some concerned responses from readers. Diana, who once mailed me a package of Chanel under-eye cream from Singapore while I was living in an orphanage in Kenya, led the charge. (To be clear, I was only 25 at the time, so the under-eye cream was DEFINITELY considered a luxury item.) Others responded with positive articles about safety in flying. Like this one, with some fascinating data showing, not surprisingly, the power of freakin’ masks.
Emirates had five flights with seven or more infected passengers on each flight, for a total of 58 coronavirus-positive passengers flying on eight-hour trips. And yet, nobody else on the planes — none of the other 1,500 to 2,000 passengers — picked up the virus, Freedman and his colleague report in the Journal of Travel Medicine.
How did they achieve this miracle? Science!
They were all sitting in a very small environment because it was an executive jet," Freedman says. "And yet again, there was no transmission because passengers were meticulously masked. The crew supervised the masking."
Other stuff:
Speaking of my old orphanage in Africa, the writer of this NYT piece was once a volunteer at my old non-profit organization. I enjoyed this read about a new, women-centered approach to running. Thesis? Don’t just suck it up.
“Historically female athletes have been coached as men with boobs, but the male standard clashes with the female experience.”
There’s a new season of The Bachelorette, and her name is Claire AND I AM HERE FOR IT. Whether you actually genuinely love this show or just rage-watch it, the #1 best thing you must do is spend $3 a month to listen to Knox and Jamie recap the insanity. The best recap out there. You’re welcome. Also, let’s give myself a big welcome to my next two months of messages on Twitter.
my next 8 weeks of @replies👇@claire literally sucks and is the abosolute worst #bachelorette
Tay @taylormck22I am fascinated by this tool, ClipDrop, which promises to organize my life. Is it one more thing, or the ONLY THING I EVER NEEDED?
If you have a meeting problem (like I do), read this chain from Amy Sterner Nelson, founder of The Riveter and mom of 4, about what the hell to do about it. Then send me a bulleted summary.
Sara Blakely, the female billionaire who started Spanx, was reading one of my books this week and a few of you sent it to me! What’s interesting is that she actually posted it to Instagram in a similar but different stack a few years ago… so I have questions? A reread? A never got around to?
There is other big news, in that I got my backyard Claire-pod installed so I have an official office OUTSIDE OF THE CHILDREN’S ZOO. Unfortunately, I didn’t take a picture yet, so it still hasn’t happened.
Bye!
Claire