Or find something you have in common with the busy person, like a company you both worked for or a school you both graduated from (e.g. "fellow Harvard alum"). "Whenever you can find something in ...

Other times they’re from people who have read my posts and want to meet up. Or they’re just from friends. My personal policy is to read every single email I get. That means every day I have to ...

When you email someone busy, you might automatically assume he'll never write back. After all, you think, he probably has hundreds (thousands?) of unread messages waiting in his inbox that are ...