At the end of last week, I decided that I am no longer doing meet and greet phone calls or I don't know even calls that feel like they're going to be meet and greet phone calls. When someone says they want to do a meet and greet, the answer is just no. But recently, I've been hit up with a bunch of different people reaching out who won't actually say they want to do a meet and greet [00:00:30] phone call. They'll disguise it as something else. I had someone reach out and say they wanted to sponsor the podcast. As soon as I got on they said that they'd be interested in sponsoring a few months out, but they just wanted to talk to me, and then they pitched me on being on the [inaudible 00:00:47] podcast and that was the podcast they were going to sponsor. But it really felt deceitful, frankly, and [00:01:00] they come in with hey I'd like to sponsor, but then it's three months out and we have to figure out what our budget is. Yadi, yadi, yada. That is not cool, people. That is not cool. Please do not do that. Not to me. Not to anyone else. You're just wasting time. 

I also had someone reach out. It was a journalist, and they said they wanted to talk, and when I got on the phone they said they were exploring different ideas for articles for something they're going to write [00:01:30] about three months out. It's always about three months. I don't know why, and they wanted to hear about Nomics. They're like just tell me more about Nomics. What are you doing? They were actually a journalist. They seemed legit. But that also was a complete waste of time. 

I think there's a lot of people with far too much time on their hands who when they don't feel like they're making progress or when they want to create for themselves the illusion that they're making progress on a given day. [00:02:00] They just want to talk to people, right? They like to hang out in telegram groups and talk on communities and debate various things and get on the phone with each other and talk about these things as well. They need a lot of social reinforcement around what they're doing. 

I'm getting better, for the most part, at filtering through these things. One of the key words I've found [00:02:30] around people who are likely going to waste my time is that they use the phrase "learn more". It might be a VC who reaches out and says something to the effect of, "I like what you're doing. It seems interesting. Let's get on the phone. I'd like to learn more." It's like what motivation do I have to educate you on our market and what we're doing just so that you can learn more? Are you really not going to offer anything of concrete value to me? 

The same on the sales front. Someone will reach out and try and sell me something, [00:03:00] and they'll say, "Hey. Here's what we do. I'd really like to get on the phone. Are you interested in learning more?" I don't what it is about the phrase "learn more" that is just this huge indicator that there's absolutely going to be no value transfer. 

I've started de-escalating these requests. If I don't know the person, I'll just ask for an email. On the bus dev [00:03:30]

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