one of the most important lessons I’ve learned this year:
to help the most people, spend a lot of time on a really strong resource you can repeatedly send out to people...[a thread]
to help the most people, spend a lot of time on a really strong resource you can repeatedly send out to people...[a thread]
new grads reach out to me often about advice, and it takes a long time to type individual paragraphs for them. My main deciding factor in making a resource is “is this something ive been asked about 5 times or more?.” paigefinndoherty.com/2020/03/30/on-…
one of the questions I continuously get is “how do I do cold outreach?” By spending hours putting together a shareable guide with examples, slides, and a video recording - I can provide way more value than typing a net new paragraph every time.
paigefinndoherty.com/2020/03/25/a-c…
paigefinndoherty.com/2020/03/25/a-c…
it brings me so much joy, because these resources have so much more ability to be leveraged by people sharing them with slack groups, group chats, DMs.
scaling my ability to help people with resources is a HUGE motivator for spending time creating resources like those above, the tech & VC Notion, onboarding docs at @WorkOS, and my upcoming illustrated children’s book for adults on VC
learning in public & sharing resources I’ve found to be useful have helped create a village here on Twitter - it’s been a CRAZY six months on this platform. if you’ve enjoyed reading this - think about how you can answer questions and learn in public too. my DMs are always open!
