Re:My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area
by Spooky23 on Friday April 19, 2024 @12:14PM
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Professionally it really works well as well. If you have a good rap and interesting questions you can connect with interesting people.
Think about it, most email is a pit of despair. Interesting human contact is rare.
Years ago I was working with a client on a really obscure bug with a storage system. I emailed a dude from the manufacturer who posted on an listserv about some similar-ish scenarios.
We emailed a few times and he ended up calling me. Turned out he was on the east coast for a conference an hour away and we ended up meeting up at the customer site unofficially, and he realized that whatever we were doing was outside of their test coverage in error. We both learned a lot and stayed in touch for a few years.
Think about it, most email is a pit of despair. Interesting human contact is rare.
Years ago I was working with a client on a really obscure bug with a storage system. I emailed a dude from the manufacturer who posted on an listserv about some similar-ish scenarios.
We emailed a few times and he ended up calling me. Turned out he was on the east coast for a conference an hour away and we ended up meeting up at the customer site unofficially, and he realized that whatever we were doing was outside of their test coverage in error. We both learned a lot and stayed in touch for a few years.