The first time I emailed a stranger, I swear my cursor hovered over Send for a full five minutes. I had plenty of justifiable reasons to remain hesitant. Not wanting to take up their time, feeling bothersome, worried my question was a silly one... A hundred disparate excuses leading back to the same core: "I’m not enough." That’s the forever curse of low self-esteem. The best and worst-case scenario can never occur, because you’ve rejected yourself first. Who knows how the other is going to respond? That’s where the rub is, isn’t it? The terrifying unknown. Yet, despite all the odds, I’ve moved through that suffocating fear. And you can do the same too. Allow me to explain. Email is old. More established than the smartphone, the hyperlink, and even the beloved internet. While Tim Berners-Lee was still only theorizing on what would later become the World Wide Web, programmers were already sending each other emails.…