My Closing Argument to the Friends I Don't Want to Lose

You spent years building your reputation. I am asking you for nine seconds to protect it.

I am writing to you as a friend.

Not as a stranger on the internet. Not as some anonymous account yelling into a feed at two in the morning. I am writing as someone who has known you for years, who has sat across a table from you, who has watched you build a business and raise a family and earn a reputation you have every right to be proud of.

And I am wo…