Hi Reader, Last week, I read this tweet by John Loeber: Sometimes, an acquaintance will reach out to me to "catch up" casually. There's nothing I like more than a nice wide-ranging conversation with no agenda, so I usually say yes. Then, 30 or 45 minutes in, they try to be very sneaky about this, they bring up -- oh-just-by-the-way -- some commercial request: an intro to so-and-so, maybe I'll consider buying their product, funding their company, whatever, and it's so disappointing: the last...