{"id":1423,"date":"2010-03-07T15:39:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T22:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2010-03-07T16:57:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T23:57:33","slug":"do-you-want-to-see-more-of-my-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2010\/do-you-want-to-see-more-of-my-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you want to see more of my brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 16 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><h3 style=\"margin-top:15px;\">Sometimes I email people.<\/h3>\n<p>Like, a lot of people at once.  I do the &#8220;bcc&#8221; thing, and I hand pick the people who I think want to hear about something, and then I remember after I sent the email that I forgot a bunch of people.  But it works well enough.\u00a0 Sometimes an email to a lot of people is the right medium for what we&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, sometimes blog posts are the right medium. Or tweets. Or personal emails. Or facebook wall posts. Or text messages.  Or (gasp!) a phone call (but let&#8217;s not talk about that).  I try to stick to whatever medium is right (except when it&#8217;s a phone call, and then I&#8217;ll try to come up with something else, <em>anything<\/em> else, that will substitute. But again, let&#8217;s not talk about that).<\/p>\n<h3>When I send out a big email, it&#8217;s usually because:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Someone sent me a really cool job or gig that doesn&#8217;t fit me very well, and I want to pass it on to other good people.<\/li>\n<li>I want to hire assistance for something, but I don&#8217;t really want the whole world to know about it.<\/li>\n<li>I want to tell people what&#8217;s changed recently in my consulting work, so they know what I&#8217;m a good fit for and what I&#8217;m not interested in.<\/li>\n<li>I want to tell the story of my consulting work &#8212; what I&#8217;m learning and doing and accomplishing and messing up along the way &#8212; without feeling totally public and naked about it.<\/li>\n<li>I want to talk about a new personal project I&#8217;m working on (usually relating to gender or sexuality or queer culture, or maybe creative writing) and see what people think before I make it public.<\/li>\n<li>I want to announce something I&#8217;m doing or hosting or organizing or traveling to (or whatever) to people I care about.<\/li>\n<li>I want to pass on information about something amazing that I care a lot about.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And&#8230; as you can probably tell from that list, these emails are starting to feel a little bit like having a newsletter&#8230; just, minus the &#8220;consent&#8221; part.<\/p>\n<h3>So let&#8217;s get consensual about this.<\/h3>\n<p>If you would like to be part of my inner circle of advisors, or if you want to hang out within catching range of the job\/gig leads that I pass on, or if you find the neurotic journey of a consultant interesting, or if you think the stuff I do for the queer world is making a difference and you want to know about my next big thing before it happens, or if you&#8217;re just my friend who never gets to spend time with me and is looking for some insight into why I won&#8217;t answer my phone&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>You can sign up to get emails from me here:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<table style=\"background-color: #fff; padding: 5px;border:1px solid #000; margin: 0px auto;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/intl\/en\/images\/logos\/groups_logo_sm.gif\" alt=\"Google Groups\" width=\"140\" height=\"30\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding-left: 5px\"><strong>Subscribe to Sarah Dopp&#8217;s Brain<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<form action=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/sarahdoppsbrain\/boxsubscribe\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding-left: 5px;\">Email:<br \/>\n<input name=\"email\" type=\"text\" \/> <input name=\"sub\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/form>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/sarahdoppsbrain\">Visit this group<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After you hit &#8220;Submit&#8221; above, Google will probably email you to make sure you really meant to do that. Just tell Google, &#8220;Yeah, I did,&#8221; and then you&#8217;ll be done with it.  (And if you have any problems, <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/contact.php\">tell me<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<h3>In exchange for your consent, interest, and trust, I vow to:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8230;not send you things that feel impersonal or spammy.\u00a0 If I&#8217;m sending you something, it&#8217;s because I think it really, really matters, and I will tell you exactly why.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;never ever ever sell\/trade\/share your email with others, or let anyone else hijack my list to use it for their own agenda.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;not email you more often than I think is respectful. That&#8217;s subjective, I know. In reality, it will probably only once a month or so &#8212; maybe less.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not setting a schedule.\u00a0 If it starts getting more frequent than that, I&#8217;ll be extra careful.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;keep it a one-way announcement list.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t a big huge discussion group. If you respond, you&#8217;ll be writing directly to me, not to everybody.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;never take it personally if you want to unsubscribe.\u00a0 In fact, I probably won&#8217;t even know.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t keep track of that stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Past and current clients, friends, family members, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genderfork.com\">genderfork<\/a> fans, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queeropenmic.com\">queer open mic<\/a> regulars, conference acquaintances, former lovers, co-conspirators, and total strangers are all welcome.\u00a0 Just remember: this is me talking about what I care about.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t share the same interests, you might not find this very exciting.<\/p>\n<p>But if you do, you probably already think this is awesome.<\/p>\n<p>(Sweet. Me too.)<\/p>\n<p>Love,<br \/>\nSarah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 16 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.Sometimes I email people. 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