How to Never Send a Naked Hey Message Again

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Preview β€” The Goal

🎯 The Goal: 'Hey' … and then nothing. The standalone greeting is the most quietly hated message on the internet: it forces the recipient to do all the conversational lifting ('hey… what's up?'), traps them in ping-pong small talk, and β€” with busy people β€” often just never gets answered. The fix is one habit: FRONT-LOAD THE CONTEXT. Greeting + reason + specific question, all in the first message, so anyone can read once and reply once.