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Tag: gatekeeping

Who Owns the No

July 3, 2026June 28, 2026 ~ cafebedouin

Every judge of your work can be escaped or fooled except one. The advice was go collect your nos. Send so many asks that rejection stops costing anything, and the yeses fall out of the pile. It works, where the asks are cheap. But it smuggles an assumption past you: that a no is a … Continue reading Who Owns the No

Open-Tent Policy

June 9, 2022June 9, 2022 ~ cafebedouin

"I think a lot about this thread because it reminds me of a lot of interactions I see online, where someone who thinks they know more than others about a topic falls into gatekeeper mode.Look, I get it, there are people who think they are experts on given topics, who know everything. I think, for example, … Continue reading Open-Tent Policy

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