The Forwardable Intro Email

You're bad at writing about yourself. This helps.

You’re bad at writing about yourself. Too much, too little, wrong details. You either undersell because you don’t want to seem arrogant, or you dump your entire career history because you can’t decide what matters.

Warm intro requests are the worst version of this. You need to convince someone to spend social capital on you — in under 150 words — while also making it easy for them to actually make the introduction.

Most people fail at both.