There are people who think it’s ok to call me on my cell without warning

Alexei Sorokin
3 min readJan 6, 2023

It’s not that my schedule is so busy that I need to schedule all of my phone conversations. Not at all. Most often I’m happy to jump on a call right away. I’ll never make myself look busy (“how about Tuesday 4pm two weeks from now?”). I always have my text message read receipts turned on.

But there is one caveat.

Don’t ever call me directly on my cell phone without checking with me first. Text me first and see if it’s ok to call me or ask when I’m available. Email works too for…

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Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. https://runningwritingliving.substack.com/