Networking advices from legendary Silicon Valley networker, Heidi Roizen

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6 points·giangbiscan··4 comments

90% of my interactions are on email (and I will say that is the same for almost all highly efficient people I know)

There is something fundamentally important there. I'd say the asynchronous and load-carrying aspects are vital, but there is some ugliness we've not been able to get rid of in 30+ years. Not for lack of trying, but there is something still missing ...

Aside: my first thought on looking at the article was "The next PG book is going to be titled 'Hawkers and Schmoozers'". No malice intended (honest hawking and schmoozing is also necessary work). I had read about H. Roizen before - a regular presence in magazines in the T/Maker days. Seems a genuinely nice person.

Antonio, are you referring to the lack of the real human contact? I think the bonds in human relationship should be there, then emails and other things help with efficiency. She talked about this on building relationship by giving/helping others first.

Sorry, I was unclear. I was thinking not of the particular situation, but of the advantages that made email become such a vital, central piece of many people's workflow (especially near the top). And that in spite of obvious deficiencies. I wasn't even thinking of the human interaction bandwidth reduction (even worse than phone), just how sometimes email fits so poorly with the rest of the workflow.

By 'trying', I meant Lotus Notes, MS Exchange, GMail, etc. I think we're not done there yet ;-). If someone can come up with a not-email that has its advantages ...

Tim Bray has some good observations, but no answer ... http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/28/Compartmen...

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