No, because dating a statistically significant sample of women sounds dreadfully expensive and conversions would be too slow to get results while I was still yo

No, because dating a statistically significant sample of women sounds dreadfully expensive and conversions would be too slow to get results while I was still young enough to use them. Sorry, I'm a bit literally minded. OK, so did I try saying different things to ladies to see how they reacted? Yes. What worked very poorly: self-deprecation ("I'm gainfully unemployed"), describing myself as an engineer, and minimizing my accomplishments in starting a company. What worked very well: focusing more on the benefits of software rather than on the "software" bit, leaving a bit of ambiguity about what I actually did for a living, and mentioning things which "normal people" tend to associate with successful businessmen. (e.g. It was, at one point, equally truthful to say "I do A/B testing" and "A firm in Germany recently flew me there to speak to the CEO about what they would need to do to increase sales by a few million dollars." Try asking young ladies of your acquaintance to rate the attractiveness of two friends with those occupations.) I got radically more successful with dating after I treated it as a marketing exercise and realized that some scripts I had internalized about it were the dating equivalent of "Good products always win so just focus on product quality and that obviates your need for a marketing strategy."