When there's a cacophony of random people trying to get your attention, it's overwhelming.

· Bits and Bobs 7/6/26
  • When there's a cacophony of random people trying to get your attention, it's overwhelming.
    • The parasites–the people who have crafted a message to muscle past the others–are what tend to get through.
    • That makes us increasingly distrustful of all inbound.
    • Support call centers deliberately make the process excruciating to deter all but the most motivated customers.
      • Maybe more of us will need that?
    • I understand that in the UK upper class, it's typical in ad hoc interactions with new people to not share your name proactively.
      • Sharing it proactively is seen as gauche.
      • One reason that formal introductions are so coveted.
    • Presumably the upper class were constantly inundated by inbound interest, and they had to develop etiquette that helped apply selection process.
    • I wonder if AI will change social norms for inbound.
    • I'm so used to getting AI slop cold outreach, that I erroneously bucketed actual cold outreach from a CEO of a successful company into spam.
    • Whoops!