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"networking is effective: most good opportunities come from personal connections."
— Byrne Hobart
Writing is Networking for Introverts"There is a solution: be famous. You lose the ability to filter out who you want to talk to, but at least everyone starts the conversation with some context; you’re outsourcing the extroversion to them."
— Byrne Hobart
Writing is Networking for Introverts"Microfame is the best kind of fame, because it combines an easier task (be famous to fewer people) with a better outcome (be famous to the right people)."
— Byrne Hobart
Writing is Networking for Introverts"a side effect of the writing-as-networking strategy is that writing about your other interests gets other people interested. You’re not just identifying neighbors in your intellectual ghetto; you’re recruiting more."
— Byrne Hobart
Writing is Networking for Introverts"I’m fairly introverted (which should be no surprise; introverts are way overrepresented on the text-only parts of the Internet), and I’m pathologically bad at recognizing faces."
— Byrne Hobart
Writing is Networking for Introverts"If you’re trying to calibrate how hard it is to achieve micro-fame, focus on the micro, not the fame. Micro-fame just means your friends-of-friends have a nonzero chance of knowing who you are, and striking up a conversation with you about something mutually interesting."
— Byrne Hobart
Writing is Networking for Introverts"You don’t have to conversationally grope around for something to talk about."
— Byrne Hobart
Writing is Networking for Introverts"Your conversational partners are pre-selected for having shared obscure interests."
— Byrne Hobart
Writing is Networking for Introverts"But a side effect of the writing-as-networking strategy is that writing about your other interests gets other people interested. You’re not just identifying neighbors in your intellectual ghetto; you’re recruiting more. If more of your friends do it, you get exposed to more ideas."
— Byrne Hobart
Writing is Networking for Introverts"As it turns out, “shameless personal networker” is just another one of those jobs being eaten by software."
— Byrne Hobart
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