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.
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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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I have moderate to severe social anxiety and a coping mechanism for it for me was adopting a commitment strategy, which is "I say yes to everything unless I can articulate a compelling reason to say no." My inbox management is a slight variant of the above.
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