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Here are three weird, unspoken rules that I learned at McKinsey that I still live by today. Number one, when you send an email to a group of people, you order the people in the box where you're putting all of the recipients in the following way. First, the client, then the additional team members. And within each of those groups, you order it from senior to junior. So this means you always start with the most senior person first, and then go through to the most junior person. So when they see the email arriving, they see themselves, or the senior person sees themselves first. Rule number two, when you are talking to externals, so for example, when you talk to clients, anything that you are suggesting to them, you suggest as if it's suggested by we as a group. So all of McKinsey suggests this. So you would never say, hi, so-and-so, I would like to propose, blah-blah-blah, or I would suggest we do blah-blah-blah. You always say, we would suggest as a group. So you always talk in a collective voice. Obviously, this is more for emails than in everyday life, because it's kind of weird in normal sentences to do this. But in emails, it's always a collective voice. And number three, when dealing with slide decks, the title should tell you everything that's on the slide. So the title should basically give away the entire point of the slide. So I don't do slides that often anymore, but when I do, I now still just make sure pretty much you just need to read the title. And vice versa, when I get slides, so if founders send me decks, I pretty much click through the whole thing just reading the titles one by one to get an idea what the whole story is. And then I might go in and actually read the details. Obviously, some people don't do it this way, so then I end up having to read all the details. But my immediate instinct is just read titles, titles, titles, titles, go to the next slide. Because that's kind of how I learned you should do it. So yeah, those are some random rules that I cannot unsee and that I still do today. Okay, bye.