¬ just serendipity 🍀 (not just serendipity)

I highly value when people combine greeting + request right away when messaging folks. Less interruption – more efficiency! You can be friendly even with an oneshot message.

At Google there is a go/nohello internal link you could put in your Teams profile to signal this preference to your fellow coworkers.

Externally, there are various sources that can be used:

• https://nohello.net/en/ (classic, canonical)

Imagine calling someone on the phone, going hello! then putting them on hold… 🤦‍♀️

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It may seem trivial, but asking your question before getting that initial salutatory reply also allows for asynchronous communication. If the other party is away, and you leave before they come back, they can still answer your question, instead of just staring at a “Hello” and wondering what they missed.

• https://www.nohello.org/ (there’s even dark mode!)
• https://no-hello.com/ (text only)
• https://www.nohello.com/ (Blogger)
• https://nohello.info/ (minimalist)
• https://nohello.wtf/ (sassy domain)
• https://nohello.club/ (SMS screenshots, a custom logo)

A bit of lore from hacker news:

I’m the original author of this content. I wrote it on the internal wiki at Google in 2007. Someone copied it and posted it at nohello.(something) after I left Google. It’s made the front page of HN multiple times.

The discussions always split between the people who just want to get on with the conversation and the people who can’t bring themselves to do that because they consider it unforgivably rude. The second group never seem to take the hint that the first interruption is an imposition in itself.