Network capital is vastly overrated/overvalued relative to financial and knowledge capital. People waste too much effort acquiring it
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To elaborate, "network capital" is really zero-sum attention mercantilism at best, negative-sum lemon-market for scenesters at worst
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To turn networking into a schumpeterian economy, attention has to be a positive sum game. Free up more attention than you consume.
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Among the subset of people who are doing that, attention economy runs a steady surplus...so long as you keep the attention mercantilists out
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Networking might push your signal above the noise barrier. Would foster further interaction w/ only miniscule amounts of your partners attn.
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Also an edge case: knowledge can easily become a globalized commodity whereas networks are localized and difficult to transfer.

