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*Clears throat* Mic Check ... I have a tiny announcement to make. #Thread
For those who have followed me for a while, you would know that one thing I& #39;m passionate about is helping people find their way into tech and progressing towards their goals.
When I started doing this, Twitter DMs made sense. I kept them open. So anyone at all could contact me. This was easy to do at the time when I had less than 5K followers.
But over time, I& #39;m sure a lot of you can attest to the fact that my response rates have slowed down ... the more followers I got, the more overwhelming it became.
While I wish I could respond to every single person, it& #39;s just not possible. I reached out to a few friends with a sizable following on Twitter to understand how they manage DMs and see if there was a better way to do it.
After trying out a few things, what seems to work (at least at this point) is one on one conversations. Reason why is because a conversation that starts as a twitter DM always have follow up questions. So if you sent me a message with 1 question, waits 2 months to get a response
And then have follow up questions, by the time we are actually done talking, a year could pass by (true story, a lot of people have had this experience and I hate it)
So ... instead of doing twitter DMs, we are going to try a new format. 15 minutes One on One sessions. I& #39;ve tried this with a few people privately over the last 2 weeks and it& #39;s worked really well.
I& #39;ll be dedicating 2 hours on Saturdays and Sundays for this so I can talk to a max of 8 people every weekend. Is this a perfect solution? I& #39;m not sure. We will try it and see how it goes after 3 months.
So, if you& #39;d like to talk to me about whatever (review your code, tech career paths, mentoring, etc ...) grab a slot on my calendar: https://calendly.com/edem-kumodzi/one-on-one">https://calendly.com/edem-kumo...
