Don’t start an introduction as comedy, you aren’t funny

Would you go to a job interview and be insulting? Not unless you didn't want the job, but then why would you go? Seriously, why go and be insulting?

i want to share the basics of an email that i got from the YCombinator cofounder matching service. For those that dont know, the YC cofounder matching service is a service for entrepreneurs to find each other. they can see about helping each other, finding a cofounder, see who is in their area(if their area is the world), etc. I've only met one person on there that i thought was remotely serious. most people don't know what they are doing on it, and it shows.

now, lets think about this. in a previous email, you want to start calling me Mac, amd this is from an email where we don't know each other.
Hey Mac, I thought it over, Mac and Cheese! If you would like to take this further, before we meet, check out my LinkedIn profile and please answer the question on this link: https://form.jotform.com/xxxxxxxxx/lets-get-to-know-you This will give you an idea of where I'm coming from. Easy!

i'm about customers, problems, and solutions, and then somehow getting moneymfrom the customer to solve their problem. what I'm not about are nicnames when you havent met, going and filling out some guy's form, or anything else.
i've made these mistakes nefore. don't do them. this is from an expert at making mistakes. be nice, be hospitable, focus on solving problems, not on being cute.

Real Estate Broker Exam

One year ago today, I walked out of my real estate broker test. I had passed both fairly easily, but I was panicked all through out the process. It was about 2.5 hours of test taking. I was very happy to get the passing grades on the state and national tests. I had spent several weeks just continually taking the practice tests over and over.
This has allowed me to be the managing broker for my father’s real estate practice.
I still do many things in my life, including write software. The amount of ethics training in real estate is immense. I wish that software developers and startups had to go through this type of training.