I would not have appreciated prior to the last few years how much of the job is: a) Acting as a well-calibrated switchboard on "Event X just happened in the world, people/teams A, B, C should learn of that." b) "You are working on X? You would enjoy A's acquaintance. *intros*"
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(This is also the shadow case for community work being much more important than it is broadly considered to be. The value in causing people to break bread together is not interesting dinner conversations it is in some discount to the years of collaboration than happen afterwards)
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I think people scandalously underrate the Internet. I think *I* probably scandalously underrate the Internet, even though I will likely write an essay about taking the Internet seriously. We got the best cheat code ever vis-a-vis prior generations but it's considered frivolous.
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What would you pay to be on the same Internet with e.g. Einstein? What if I told you that you're already on a better Internet than that one and it's effectively free? Cat photos and trolls are not the only things out there!
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There's literally an app that can tremendously help you with this. Have a look at
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"a huge amount of productivity is unlocked by network structure" is a great way of putting it
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One of the most under shared insights of sociology! Ronald Burt’s groundbreaking work on Structural Holes and recent work on Neighbor Networks especially should be popularized more
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This is why I like sitting away from my team — my officemates are working on other teams, I learn a lot from them, and I can make introductions for (team size) X (number of distinct teans I’ve sat with)
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