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Patrick McKenzie
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Patrick McKenzie

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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 17 Jan 2019
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    This is my periodic reminder that a substantial portion of all value I've created in my career is downstream of making it very easy for people to contact me and explicitly soliciting it. It's so easy to execute on it's practically cheating.

    6:09 AM - 17 Jan 2019
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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 17 Jan 2019
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        Conversation which happens all the time: "Where did you find [a candidate / a lead / an opportunity / etc]." "Oh they found me on the Internet." "Wow I wish that happened to me." "This is really and truly not a hard wish to operationalize on."

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 17 Jan 2019
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        I think one of the reasons why people don't do it is they want to be protective of their time, but if you signpost expectations about availability and decrease the cost of contacting you, that decreases the downside to both parties if the conversation can't happen immediately.

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      4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 17 Jan 2019
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        Like, if one is the hypothetical Silicon Valley VC whose filter is "Find someone I trust to intro you and then you get a conversation", forcing the work on the person wanting to talk to you and the voucher commits you to definitely making the conversation happen.

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      5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 17 Jan 2019
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        And so the policy which you instituted to protect your time ends up potentially both increasing the demands on your time and also decreasing your exposure to interesting conversations via gatekeeping yourself from them.

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      2. Roland Hougs‏ @OminousWater 17 Jan 2019
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        Great point! What have you found works best for signposting your availability/willingness to be contacted? Through e.g. social media or some other way?

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 17 Jan 2019
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        Replying to @OminousWater

        I have a page on my website about it and mention in my e.g. HN profile and sometimes on Twitter. (I don't really do social media outside of those two, especially not professionally.)

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      2. Kelly Ellis‏Verified account @justkelly_ok 17 Jan 2019
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        Are you aware that people who don't look like you often receive high volumes of unwanted contact and harassment?

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 17 Jan 2019
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        Replying to @justkelly_ok

        人の経験はそれぞれですが15年以上日本に住み続けた外国人の立場から思ったら何となく予想できるのではないかと思います。

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      2. Ryan Sumo  🇵🇭‏ @RyanSumo 17 Jan 2019
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        Presumably one must first have some sort of output that is engaging enough for people to want to reach out to you, and I don't know that everyone has that in them.

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 17 Jan 2019
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        This feels unlikely to me, based on how many people I talk to have at least one interesting to say when we have a conversation.

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