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Writing cold emails because things don't happen on hot algorithms:

Hello!

It’s Sheilfer from the Robots Building Education Patreon platform that you signed up to previously. As a member, you qualify as the top 1% performance from folks I communicate to. I’m writing personally to you to talk about the next stage of the platform and why I believe your participation is important and needed. To get straight to the point, I’m happy to answer any questions in an email reply and registering again enables the following:

I’ll be able to more realistically afford the capacity to be directly involved in people’s outcomes with regular meetings, calls or events.


A significant milestone becomes achievable, the platform will have the capability to generate one $1000 per week and the ability to run the platform full-time.


You’ll learn underrepresented, evergreen and super valuable skills for a modern market during a period of history where we can create abundance and opportunity.


You’ll save time, money and energy so that you can afford to explore other prospects, like the ability to create businesses with your friends, family or colleagues.

Here are three examples of students finding success, not just because of me, but because of their own personal direction and hunger:

Celebrating Citlali’s Microsoft Software Engineering Internship.


Creating Influanto, a startup for music business founded by gen.wav


A business called AeroGrow by our member Armando, a startup for agriculture.

In short, I’m reaching out because I’m wondering if you would like to help me in building a bridge from Robots Building Education to unaffiliated organizations like NAHREP Or L’Attitude Ventures in order to access and expand to healthy, productive and serious networks off of the internet.

The way I want us to accomplish this is by being dedicated to quality education and service. I like to think of this as our way of extracting value from trillion dollar algorithms and creating opportunity for our community the way our parents created possibilities for us. As always, things are going to be done in a fair and modest way. The platform is $10/mo now, or $8.50/mo for the annual rate, while still remaining to be super refund-friendly. We ought to treat this subscription as an investment because that’s what it is - we apply knowledge and leverage and seek returns. In the same manner, I try my best to multiply the value of the money I receive too!

This can totally be a “no thanks”, but either way I would still like to write a message at least thanking you for signing up and I still encourage you to continue carving out your own path. That’s my ultimate goal; I want to help folks unlock the confidence to overcome their doubts and to do the things they want. I believe the result of that is things falling into place.

Writing this letter reminds me of a pretty important experience that I had when I was in high school. I was 14 and had decided to stop pursuing an education in music. I received a surprising call over the summer from my music teacher who had essentially pleaded and urged me not to give up the study. He was honest about why, given the shortage of trombone players he was experiencing, but the other reality was that he cared enough about my education to call me personally and encourage me to continue learning. This was in juxtaposition to how I stopped playing soccer, despite it being an important aspect to my identity.

That phone call was a small effort that had long-lasting consequences in my life. Years later I pursued an interest in jazz music, tutoring and an exploration in a number of instruments like the piano, the clarinet, the baritone and many more musical skills. It had the consequence of being more connected to my culture too, gaining something that I had previously lost with soccer. In fact, I still use a lot of those creative skills today because I ended up developing a profound appreciation for improv jazz music in particular. I credit my study in music as a significant contributor in my ability to learn new creative skills.

I remember that experience fondly because it was probably the only time that a teacher went an extra mile to simply encourage my growth. I learned that the art of teaching is ultimately to move the needle for a student rather than to transfer knowledge, and there’s a lot more that gets accomplished if a teacher focuses on encouragement rather than intelligence. This is something I invest a lot to represent in the technology I build because I believe education technology should focus on this. Education should belong to you, and it produces security & safety for people because it’s a stabilizing constant of life. When you learn, it can’t be taken away from you. You can’t lose something you practice.

Knowledge is only gained through commitment and motivations derived, rationalized and actualized by the student, not the teacher. So, like music, it’s a very emotional and creative field, and requires a lot of the same work needed for a performance. This is something I write about passionately.

This is all a long way to say that I’m here to encourage your learning in the spaces that we share together. I’m hoping you decide to give it another shot. The technology has recently improved and is a lot closer to what I want it to look and feel like. I want to invite you to give it a try. In 2024, I’m sure most of us are trying to de-mystify how powerful tools like AI can create opportunities for us and I believe the platform I’ve created meaningfully introduces it to folks.

So thank you either way and I appreciate the time you're taking to read through my various ramblings and ideas. I’m often grateful for the chance to write a message like this to you and I’m eager to continue its success.

Sheilf