[bhouston]

> to dig yourself out of the hole of “I’m too busy and there’s nobody around to help”, you have to slow down and do this

Exactly! If you treat new contributors as crap because you are overworked, you will push away potential long-term collaborators who could share the load thus ensuring you will be working alone far into the future. This is a failure state and if I had a manager doing that to those he was managing, he wouldn't be a manager for long.