> a) Implies someone thinks they are too important to deal with emails that they establish a paywall ... So its basically arrogance mixed with an inability to m

> a) Implies someone thinks they are too important to deal with emails that they establish a paywall ... So its basically arrogance mixed with an inability to manage their time correctly. I don't have a PA (ha!) but I still get a lot of random email from people wanting to get in touch. Especially just after I publish something. And I find it socially overwhelming to respond to everyone - especially when lots of folks seem nice & interesting, and they're asking to schedule a zoom chat or something. I like a lot of those conversations when we have them - but scheduling and socializing really takes it out of me. And that means less coding time, which costs. I suspect making people donate $1 to a charity in order to reach me would help cut down almost all of the traffic. Gosh, I'd enable that on linkedin in a heartbeat if I could. If everyone who messaged me on linkedin first paid $5 to a charity for the privilege first, I might even check my linkedin messages. But for email, my worry is that it would filter out the interesting people, and leave the pushiest and most entitled people in my inbox. Probably leave them feeling even more entitled to my time. > So its basically arrogance mixed with an inability to manage their time correctly. I wouldn't characterize introvert tenancies + social overwhelm from strangers as "arrogance". To briefly reframe it, nobody is entitled to my time no matter how nicely worded their email is, or how much effort they put in to a pull request. My attention is my own to direct. If you're a stranger to me, basic civility doesn't demand I reply to your email, or publish my email address at all. I often do reply; but the decision (and the rules) are up to me (the receiver). Not up to the sender.