[mrmarket]

i do this with some frequency, maybe a few times a month. i'll email bloggers/poets/researchers i like or founders of interesting companies that solve very specific problems in a satisfying way. i've gotten more responses than you'd think! even when emailing founders or writers you'd expect had hundreds of much more important emails to attend to.

not to make this yet another 'in the age of AI' comment, but i can't help myself: given how cold and barren the mainstream internet feels now, cold emailing strangers in a non-transactional way is a humanitarian act. when i get emails from strangers about my own personal blog it makes me feel a little brighter about things for like an hour after. it's why i keep my email on my blog, despite the occasional spam/anonymous hate