AI made every message look serious. Signal requires commitment. Building proof before send.
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Jun 13
I don’t play status games for 3 reasons: they’re a losing proposition, they bring no satisfaction, and have no end.
realizing your purpose only, solving the problem you wake up with, can make you happy.
And helping others also can. But this must be done very carefully
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Dima Sable retweeted
Jun 12
also: everyone adds everyone like for "maybe later" (FOMO).
then "maybe later: comes: "i need to reach out them, but wtf who is this and how we met? omg"
result: "hi! idk you, you dont know me, but we have 1 person in connections we both dont know. let's chat!"
a cringe circus
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Dima Sable retweeted
Jun 12
LinkedIn is like Instagram-about-job/career:
1. People show lives they don't actually live
2. statements only that cannot be verified
3. contact list of names you can't remember
no Proof-of-work as a basis = fluff --> 0 value
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Jun 10
many founders build same smart tools for inbox
why? the flood is growing. Ok. And these should tell us what matters
BUT it's as dumb fighting fire with a fire: any tool sitting AFTER the fact fails by definition
the text is no longer a proxy of quality or a proof of intent
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Dima Sable retweeted
Jun 8
The same is for broken inbound: solution is never upstream (ai filters, smart sorting engines), because gigo (garbage in garbage out) is in play.
Downstream only can fix inbound problem getting sharper because of ai/ai agents.
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Jun 5
📧why email has not embedded function to binary close loops instead of ghosting?
e.g.: tinder has left/right swipe -- no "postpone" action. that brings clarity.
what if email had "reply/decline 1click decision buttons", instead of this “maybe later” swamp?
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Jun 5
we preserve optionality long after we’ve lost the ability to use it.
why?
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Jun 5
if warm intros are enough, why most ppl keep their inbox open for cold inbound?
any clues?
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Dima Sable retweeted
Jun 5
I'd add one more Q.: "will this grow because of the changes brought about by AI?"
(e.g. because of the changes - including the negative ones - that AI brings)
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Dima Sable retweeted
Jun 5
We have to stop clinging to the past. What worked then will never work again.
Even the best writing, as you described, will be buried under a ton of slop.
The secret lies beyond the plane of flat text. doing what you did yesterday leads to the same yesterday results.
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Dima Sable retweeted
Jun 3
ai didn't kill email. - it killed text as proof of effort.
the next layer isn't a better filter - it's proof before attention
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Jun 3
ai made output cheap. so the scarce question:
[is this well made?] --> [where did this come from?]
who ,why, context, judgment what was costly to fake?
trust starts one layer below the output.
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May 29
AI inbox agents solve the volume problem by reading for you. But they create a trust problem:
now both you and the sender are judged by a machine interpreting cheap text.
how about adding proof before interpretation? :-)
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May 29
1. being smart VS looking smart are no longer the same thing.
2. ai didn’t kill email. it killed text as proof of effort.
3. the problem is not spam. but a cheap outreach that no longer looks cheap.
4. in the old world, bad outreach looked bad. now cheap outreach looks thoughtful.
5. recipients can no longer judge the person by the polish of the message.
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May 29
Ai mail-agent can summarize the message.
but how to prove why it deserved to be summarized in the first place?
So i do conclude: summaries reduce reading, but they don’t solve trust.
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May 28
AI can summarize text - but it cannot manufacture sender commitment.
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May 28
if ai gives every sender a leverage. - recipients should get a way to stay open without becoming blind.
cold email agents make every message look serious. im building to make seriousness costly again.
as easy as that
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May 28
The problem of inbounds (email, DMs) is no longer just spam, but is wider. open.substack.com/pub/sobole…
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