How To Ask For Help
You frequently have to ask people for things. You will also have more and more people asking you to do favors for them. Here is what I have learned: You can maximize your odds of getting what you want by minimizing the work the other person has to do to help you. Be appropriately selfish. It is ok to ask for things. It is ok to ask for things from someone who can help you more than you can help them right now. Just stay within reason, and do not ask people to do things that seriously puts their reputation on the line. Always have a one sentence summary. You might think your three paragraph message is short, and it might be if the person you are emailing happens to get no other email. More likely she has hundreds of messages in her inbox and your message feels anything but "short."
http://www.unschooled.org/2011/03/how-to-ask-for-things/
Do not call me
Less obsolete but more annoying than a handwritten letter, the phone call is fading as a mode of communication even if the nostalgic will be singing its praises for awhile. We reached a breaking point in 2008 when text messaging topped mobile phone calling in usage, and we have been living in a world dominated by text-based communication ever since.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/13/alexia-phone-home/
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