I Saw Your HN Comment
hacker newscold emails
I used to love getting emails from people in response to things I’ve written online, blog posts or Hacker News comments, but in the last 2 years it’s changed from mostly signal to mostly noise. I’ve met people in real life as a result of these emails, I’ve hired people based on these emails, and I’ve learned cool things through these emails but today it’s almost all pitches. I (had Claude) look through all the emails I’ve gotten about my posts and comments since 2013 to check my gut feeling: