Judging by the number of people I’ve met who fall into this category, Terry Pratchett has at least 10,000 close personal friends; I’d probably be better off persuading one of them to do it.
However, I will bend Charlie Stross’s ear on this subject if I get the opportunity.
EDIT: to be clear, the possible damage is that if my email doesn’t succeed, it raises the bar the second such email has to reach to be persuasive.
Judging by the number of people I’ve met who fall into this category, Terry Pratchett has at least 10,000 close personal friends; I’d probably be better off persuading one of them to do it.
However, I will bend Charlie Stross’s ear on this subject if I get the opportunity.
EDIT: to be clear, the possible damage is that if my email doesn’t succeed, it raises the bar the second such email has to reach to be persuasive.
I doubt Stross would listen. He’s too self-righteous. But cool that you know him.