I am implementing a radical change to my scheduling: my default is going from saying yes to a meeting request to no. For a long time I have tried to meet with pretty much everybody who sincerely reached out to me. Sometimes it would just be a short meeting, sometimes I would push the meeting out for quite a while but essentially I made myself available. I have met a lot of interesting people that way over the years. And I did it because rightly or wrongly I felt being accessible was a way of ...

I am implementing a radical change to my scheduling: my default is going from saying yes to a meeting request to no. For a long time I have tried to meet with pretty much everybody who sincerely reached out to me. Sometimes it would just be a short meeting, sometimes I would push the meeting out for quite a while but essentially I made myself available. I have met a lot of interesting people that way over the years. And I did it because rightly or wrongly I felt being accessible was a way of ...