I find the etiquette of Calendly (and other appointment booking things) really interesting
I've heard some people are offended by the suggestion that they use that to book a slot rather than doing a back-and-forth to find the right time for both parties
I see it as respectful of my time when someone suggests Calendly rather than having us back-and-forth over several cycles
@simon I think the situation is something like this:
The Calendly itself is neutral, and everyone agrees it is better than email haggling.
When embedded in relationships with other power dynamics (VCs scheduling with startups, execs scheduling for interviews), the person with more power saying "find time on my calendar" can feel dismissive, especially if they have one free 15m slot that's two months away.
@b0rk This has been interesting for me from the other side, as a person who never had a single CS course.
Sometimes I find that there's a known CS solution for something, and then have to backtrack and teach myself the dependencies so that I can understand it.
Twelve years ago, I was building a web UI and found out one of the performance problems we had was secretly two compiler problems and a data structures problem in a trenchcoat. That was fun.
