My guess is that paid email services are tailored for (or marketed to) the sort of person who’s already happy to send that signal (i.e. CEOs, founders, etc).
[edit: went and looked at earn.com, which looked _differently_ weird than I was expected, something something tailored for people who are up for saying ‘I am into weird things like bitcoin’]
Yup, I think one of the main use cases is to enable a way of contacting people much higher status/more busy than you that doesn’t require a ton of networking or makes their lives terrible. (N.b. I have lots of uncertainty over whether there’s actually demand for this among that cohort, which is partly why I’m writing this.)
My guess is that paid email services are tailored for (or marketed to) the sort of person who’s already happy to send that signal (i.e. CEOs, founders, etc).
[edit: went and looked at earn.com, which looked _differently_ weird than I was expected, something something tailored for people who are up for saying ‘I am into weird things like bitcoin’]
Yup, I think one of the main use cases is to enable a way of contacting people much higher status/more busy than you that doesn’t require a ton of networking or makes their lives terrible. (N.b. I have lots of uncertainty over whether there’s actually demand for this among that cohort, which is partly why I’m writing this.)
To me contacting people much higher status then you is a different process then rationalists contacting fellow rationalists.