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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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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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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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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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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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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Are you aware that people who don't look like you often receive high volumes of unwanted contact and harassment?
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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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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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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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