Summary: “Can I buy you a coffee and pick your brain?” What caused this delusion among the advice-needing people of the world that the going rate for an hour-long professional consultation is a three-dollar beverage? Why do we all try this early in our careers (and if we work in biz dev, our middle and late careers)? I think it’s that in our early twenties, most of us haven’t realized how generic we seem to everyone we look up to, nor how much busier those people are.
