I've been asked a number of times this trip how to cold start a community (in a place, a field, etc). There is no one answer, but if you want a reproducible pair of questions: Who do you have in abundance? What do you have which is scarce? Introduce the two. Repeat.
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(Example: what do you think the median number of speaking requests outside academia the 100th most awesome professor in the United States gets per month, for some suitably squishy definition of awesome? My estimate is *zero.*)
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"surfeit" means "lots." This sentence makes more sense to me if I replace it with "deficit."
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Yikes, out of practice with English. Thanks!
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