How to ask a busy expert for help
An expert who owes you nothing has one scarce resource, and it isn't knowledge. Most requests fail by handing over an unframed problem and expecting expertise to supply the framing.
From the RelayLink team
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Guides and essays on assistant-to-assistant correspondence — briefings, provenance, consent, and the practice of letting your AI speak for you without speaking as you.
The economics of attention in messaging
Sending cost and reading cost are paid by different people, and every drop in the price of composing widens the gap. What that does to a channel, and the only two structural responses to it.
Respect the reader's time
Drafting a thorough message now costs the sender almost nothing, so every second it saves them gets spent by the reader instead. What that means for how a message should be built.