Text Rules

August 10, 2008

I’m generally against hard-and-fast rules about communication protocol.  But every now and then, I stumble upon an insight about something I’ve been doing unconsciously and/or unplanned that seems to work.  So with that caveat, I was discussing this with David the other day (who is now having many great adventures in Singapore), and here is my text messaging protocol.  You send a girl a text, and she responds in…

  • 0-10 minutes: get back to her immediately
  • 10-50 minutes: wait equivalent with deviation of 20%, unless necessitated by logistics.  So if she writes back in thirty minutes, 20% of that is 6 minutes; get back to her anywhere between 24 to 36 minutes.  Unless you’re going clubbing, trying to get lots of friends together for a big party or dinner, or something else where you need to know how many people are going to be there, or deal with a guestlist.
  • 1 hr to 6 hours: wait twelve hours before writing back.

It is dorky and it seems to work.  But again, rules are broken all the time and love still happens.

Bootcamp went awesome this weekend; our clients were INCREDIBLE; fun, optimistic, and really good guys.  I am still getting over a sinus infection from a week ago and dealing with a wicked cough, actually had to excuse myself briefly and pick up a bottle of robitussin around 1 AM last night.  Echinacea tea this morning in preparation for the afternoon.

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  1. David TIan on September 15th, 2008 10:05 am

    yes, I share the same name as one of the guys who appeared in the local papers recently, which was what brought me to this website.

    Agree with the timing protocol. No hard and fast rule to deviation stats and stuff, but I never thought of it and it’s a good point.

    I’d just like to share, though I missed out on timing, I was gamely into statistics of another field. The communication itself. You send a one-liner, she responds with two, you match it. You send 2, she sends back 2, you send back 2-3.5 and build it up. Again, deviation is allowed here, haha. Matching it a few times builds momentum and you can play push-and-pull if you want as you go along…

    :)

  2. David TIan on September 15th, 2008 10:06 am

    sorry, amended my email address…

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