A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
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A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
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Re: A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
#2A great system!
Re: A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
#3Hi %famous-person% have my free %upvote-or-acknowledgement% for implementing a %faux-human-response%.
Do I now have to do traffic analysis on my received mails to detect which ones have suspicious periodicity to measure my A,B or C-dom?
D I know: its the Christmas form letter.
Re: A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
#4What I tried some time ago, was putting people as projects in my trello board (I had it set up as a GTD board with a separate column for Projects).
And each time I did a review I wrote a comment like: "Didn't do anything recently" or "Seen last weekend, X and Y was lot of fun".
And when I felt it was time to reach out I did - if not it waited for the next review.
Re: A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
#5So he's treating people like assets, not friends, and these assets need to be checked on on a regular basis. If there were friends, he'd not need to be reminded of contacting them.
He'd miss contacting them.
So instead he needs a tool to remind him of that "friend" he needs to contact, because pretending to care is beneficial. One might some day need them.
It's incredibly sad that his social life, or rather: the illusion of a social life, is being dictated by a machine.
Re: A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
#6If I read a post on my friend’s blog exposing that their occasional texts had genesis in an automation and not genuine interest I would try very hard to not talk to that person
Unsubscribe, please
Re: A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
#7Let me just point that the messages must be genuine and thoughtful. It is written in the article, but it seems that some people failed to notice it and accuse the author of objectivization and hypocrisy.
Re: A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
#8So he's treating people like assets, not friends, and these assets need to be checked on on a regular basis. If there were friends, he'd not need to be reminded of contacting them. He'd miss contacting them. So instead he needs a tool to remind him of that "friend" he needs to contact, because pretending to care is beneficial. One might some day need them. It's incredibly sad that his social life, or rather: the illu…
For so long we were (and still are) called a human resource, whole departments and studies devoted for human resource management. Treating people like assest fits here.
Re: A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
#9Actually this is sad
Re: A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
#10The next logical step is to have AI (GPT-3?) read the social posts of the contact and produce an email based on that and the last email. I hope the poor people on the other end of the author's networking scheme also have AI to read this and reply.