Comment by hypfer
6 hours ago
Same. (I would love to say, but they still get me way too often)
I can also highly encourage people to keep notes and do some basic OSINT. The effective internet is smaller than one might think, so that proves useful time and time again.
Can you elaborate on the OSINT suggestion? Do you mean on the people you engage with?
Yes, exactly. Though, not by default.
If something seems _odd_, I suggest looking up _why_ it might be odd. Gathering context, essentially.
Like "Okay, this guy is weird. Aah, okay, LinkedIn says that he works there. Okay _now_ that makes sense".
Based on that, you can then decide how to approach the (previously failing) interaction.
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HN is a very easy place for that, because, to give somewhat concrete examples, if someone is shilling for something and seems unreachable for common sense, LinkedIn usually tells you that their salary depends on that.
And people play very open here, because this is treated as a business networking event.