Thank you for writing what you’d find most valuable! This lines up well with my thoughts...
Regarding being overwhelmed by requests for advice: Yes! That’s definitely a failure mode. We’ve discussed how much we can give direct advice (very little in the near future, potentially more later but that’s quite a bit of work to get there) and how to choose candidates (where we have a lot of thoughts but, as with other things, we expect to decide on a criteria and then have to fix it once we see where it fails).
I’m cautiously optimistic that we just don’t have enough time to fall into this failure mode and so we’ll stop ourselves before this becomes an issue :-)
I can imagine you stopping yourself from doing too much coaching, but the people who apply for coaching don’t know what happened or why you didn’t get in touch. Does that make sense?
Something as simple as having an automatic reply to email enquiries saying “unfortunately we can’t respond to every request for coaching” could be helpful.
Yes, that makes perfect sense. I think we definitely need to have a system that (1) let’s people know if they’re not going to get coaching even though they asked and (2) doesn’t take up a lot of our time.
Thank you for writing what you’d find most valuable! This lines up well with my thoughts...
Regarding being overwhelmed by requests for advice:
Yes! That’s definitely a failure mode. We’ve discussed how much we can give direct advice (very little in the near future, potentially more later but that’s quite a bit of work to get there) and how to choose candidates (where we have a lot of thoughts but, as with other things, we expect to decide on a criteria and then have to fix it once we see where it fails).
I’m cautiously optimistic that we just don’t have enough time to fall into this failure mode and so we’ll stop ourselves before this becomes an issue :-)
I can imagine you stopping yourself from doing too much coaching, but the people who apply for coaching don’t know what happened or why you didn’t get in touch. Does that make sense?
Something as simple as having an automatic reply to email enquiries saying “unfortunately we can’t respond to every request for coaching” could be helpful.
Yes, that makes perfect sense. I think we definitely need to have a system that (1) let’s people know if they’re not going to get coaching even though they asked and (2) doesn’t take up a lot of our time.