Well, here would be the ones I’m interested in: the 3 minute rant would be perfect right now as I finish processing shitty family. The general chat with topics includes several that I personally am interested in, including photography and mental health. The offer to pair program with me to help me with a programming problem? Amazing. Though I’d feel too guilty about using that one personally when the vast majority of my coding problems can be solved by Google and sometimes screaming into a pillow.

All in all, if I was looking for an employee, seeing this page would put that person at the top of the list for me because it gives off all the right vibes - team player, interested in helping others, well rounded, etc.

I'm not sure what qualifies as a cold lead here, but I've had ca. 150 calls so far. I reached out to people directly only twice with 50% success rate.

This comment seemed to generate 1k visits to my site, from and 2 called booked for Tuesday.

Most of my calls are 30m coffee chats (I'd say close to 90%).

Rants are quite rare and people tend to cancel those last minute. My theory is behind this is that the decision to book a call is more likely to be driven by emotions.

Rants rarely end up being rants. For instance, the first one I had ended up being a 2 hour discussion about life, privacy, cryptography, tech + a century-long and hemisphere-wide family history in English and Ukrainian.

If you have any questions about this -- please let me know as I'm compiling an article for untested.sonnet.io