Getting to know the right people (2022)
Networking is an enormous time sink, where 95% of your interactions are unfruitful, but you have to pretend to be enjoying them anyways. Maybe you find one connection that is worthwhile, and of that one connection, you have to carefully nurture it, without giving off the &quot;this is the one important connection&quot; vibes, because people can smell that a mile away. And sometimes that connection evaporates under mysterious causes. It&#x27;s pointless. I truly can&#x27;t justify wasting my time doing it when I could be producing things that anonymous people appreciate and rely on. I&#x27;d rather serve them than waste my time playing delicate social&#x2F;power games with people in my proximity that I don&#x27;t even relate to. At least when you serve anonymous people, they&#x27;re generally honest about the quality of your work. You can&#x27;t rely on anyone in these networks to be honest with you like an anonymous person can.