Don’t know2 can be defined: when someone doesn’t want to know what they don’t know. In whole or in part, to get more up-to-date, or ensure they are classically, correctly, and better-established.

I am probably guilty of the same. I admit.

But my beef is this:

I am inundated with people who want to sell me something I don’t need, and they should be able to tell that, and save me the inconvenience of blocking them as spammers, if they only took the small amount of time to read what I produce online to know me better and my needs.

This morning: an offer for a free second opinion on my federal taxes and NYS taxes. Ahem, I don’t live in New York nor file taxes there.

Just now: Window cleaning services (see picture of my office window above!).

Yesterday: a wholesale redo of my website and blog overnight. It’s fine, believe me.

Over the course of time they wasted, some are laughable: best-in-class payroll  and 401k services (I am a solopreneur), bonded overnight office cleaning (for my home office in my basement?), and the list can go on and on.

The best? Laughable and sadly, I was offered a free rewrite of my LinkedIn profile by their AI bot to make me a superstar. Huh?

Some send emails constantly using different names over a period of days, but the same domain name. Some refer to emails from others in their company who tried earlier, as a means to make my responding to them more imperative. Many are  requesting a read receipt. Imperative? yes, I block them too and never acknowledge receipt.

So while I don’t need what’s offered so abundantly, callously, freely, I am highly selective in whom I hire to maintain my PC and its health, design my website and blog, provide legal and accounting services, and so forth.

They know me. I know them. I trust them. I’ve known them for years.

Could they and I do better? I sorta doubt it. I hold the bar high.

For you promiscuous offerors and other interlopers, you don’t know me or my business needs, i.e., you don’t know2

I know what I need and I know what I don’t. A staccato email that I did not solicit won’t convince me.

I know whom to ask for referrals to what I might need otherwise.

Stop. But you won’t.

I’ll keep my basement casement windows clean and pay myself and write my own LinkedIn copy and reward my colleagues with business they earned.

You don’t know me, as in don’t know2 so stop pinging me to get my attention and business, OK?