Cold Outreach

Reaching out cold to people you don’t know — often people “significantly smarter than me.” Kyle Harrison’s counterpoint to the common complaint (quote-tweeted from Andrew Wilkinson) that asking to “pick your brain” is “like asking someone you barely know to help you move”: for Kyle, cold outreach to smarter people has produced life-changing experiences. He first argued this in an April 2020 thread — see As Someone Who Has Had… (tweet).

The theme became the spine of his essay You Know Who You Should Talk To? (subtitle The Art of the Intro); the research doc behind it collects the cold-email clippings and reflections that fed the piece.

Where this appears

• As Someone Who Has Had… (tweet) — Kyle’s 2020 thread reframing cold outreach as a source of life-changing experiences.
• You Know Who You Should Talk To? - Research — research bank for the essay, listing Cold Outreach as its lead theme.