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> The original business was established under Karen’s name and we switched everything over to the corporation a few months down the road. Did you meet Karen ph

• justincooke 12y ago
  We'd never met Karen when she was working for us with our mortgage company. A few years later we hired her and a couple of other VA's to help us with work. As we started to ramp that out, both Joe and I flew out to the Philippines to meet up in person, check out office space, etc.
• rwallace 12y ago
  Your choice of question implies you think it's better to trust people you've met physically. This certainly matches typical human intuition; most people think they can tell all sorts of things about other people from a face-to-face meeting. Intuition turns out to be wildly wrong in this regard. Whenever the results are actually measured, the strong feelings we get about people from face-to-face meetings are just noise; they aren't significantly more accurate than random chance. Objectively you're probably better off to trust people you've only met online because that way you know you're working with little data (and therefore should be cautious about degree of trust, and seek objective feedback before committing large sums of money); you're not lulled into a false sense of security.
  • sumedh 12y ago
    > Your choice of question implies you think it's better to trust people you've met physically. I knew someone would point that out. You make a fair point but body language can tell you a lot about the other person if you know how to read it.
    • travem 12y ago
      Perhaps, perhaps not, but body language across different cultures is not universal.