why i take every meeting
14 conversations on a single sunday taught me something about optionality.
Sunday, February 2nd. I had 14 meetings.
Not scheduled weeks ago. Calendly auto-fill, cancellations, reschedules. A developer in Toronto. A tokenomics guy. A podcast host. A guy building something in fintech. A regulatory advisor. A robotics founder. A few investors. A sales leader. Repeat.
Most of them were 20 minutes. A few ran long.
The default move is to say no. You've built something. You have momentum. Every minute with a stranger is a minute away from shipping. That's the narrative in founder culture right now.
But here's what changed for me after ten years of Bitcoin.
The best deal I ever saw came through a conversation I almost skipped. The person I trusted most in 2023 was someone I met in a chat that was supposed to be five minutes. The regulatory insight that saved us in India came from a guy I took a call with at 2 AM because my timezone was weird.
Most meetings are noise. But the one that matters—the person who gets it, the capital that actually understands your thesis, the co-founder who thinks in your language—you never know which call is that one.
So I take them all. Not because they're all good. But because the signal-to-noise ratio is a lot better than I thought it was at 25.
How many conversations have you skipped this month because you were "too busy"?