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The Cold Email
July 29, 2026
Three of the biggest changes in my life all stemmed, in part, from cold
outreach.
Originally I was waitlisted at Carnegie Mellon. Getting waitlisted is like,
being the first loser: you’re good enough to be in the topic of conversation,
but they make it clear that you’re not good enough to
actually
get accepted.
My dad had me next day air an additional essay about what I was working on at
the time (I had built Good-Tutorials, which was the largest tutorial website on
the planet, so that was something different). I also included a bunch of other
material and things about me and my senior year.
I thought doing all of this was pretty silly and a waste of time — didn’t I
mention this all before? — but my dad kept saying it wouldn’t hurt to really
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