Great advice and something we encourage our Roots of Progress writing fellows to do.
My only minor disagreement: I will include my Calendly in the scheduling ask—not as the first thing but as an additional option. I want to avoid suggesting some times, then those don’t work, and we have several email back-and-forths to find time.
“Would love to talk. I’m pretty open Wednesday or Thursday after 1 pm, or Friday before 12 pm PT. Or if it’s easier, here’s my Calendly.”
Immediate "Save" on this one; into the reference library. Thank you Auren!
Connector response template when you're declining to make the intro and don't want to burn the bridge in the other direction? Or is a non-response sending the understood signal? :)
the worst is when you get intro'd without double opt-in and have to spend time figuring out why you are being introduced or how you get out of it if it's not a useful intro.
ok, the only suggestion i'd make to this in subject line. i prefer the requester include their name in some form.
Subject: intro to Tod Sacerdoti – AI partnership
Subject: intro to Tod Sacerdoti (from Hunter Walk) – AI partnership
the tradeoff is it risks pushing some of the reason (AI partnership) out of view depending on the email client, but i think it's too generic w/o some attribution, and then when it comes back into my inbox, i've got instant context on what it is (given that we're all doing, like, dozens of these at any given time).
Good advice.
Great advice and something we encourage our Roots of Progress writing fellows to do.
My only minor disagreement: I will include my Calendly in the scheduling ask—not as the first thing but as an additional option. I want to avoid suggesting some times, then those don’t work, and we have several email back-and-forths to find time.
“Would love to talk. I’m pretty open Wednesday or Thursday after 1 pm, or Friday before 12 pm PT. Or if it’s easier, here’s my Calendly.”
good suggestion!!
Immediate "Save" on this one; into the reference library. Thank you Auren!
Connector response template when you're declining to make the intro and don't want to burn the bridge in the other direction? Or is a non-response sending the understood signal? :)
yes. please share this. let's make this the norm
the worst is when you get intro'd without double opt-in and have to spend time figuring out why you are being introduced or how you get out of it if it's not a useful intro.
ok, the only suggestion i'd make to this in subject line. i prefer the requester include their name in some form.
Subject: intro to Tod Sacerdoti – AI partnership
Subject: intro to Tod Sacerdoti (from Hunter Walk) – AI partnership
the tradeoff is it risks pushing some of the reason (AI partnership) out of view depending on the email client, but i think it's too generic w/o some attribution, and then when it comes back into my inbox, i've got instant context on what it is (given that we're all doing, like, dozens of these at any given time).
great improvement Hunter! i accept this suggestion!
Timely and well written!
Very well written! Very funny. Enjoyed reading it. Kirthi