Start thinking about "connectional intelligence"
Basically, networking sucks -- to the point that often the best advice to "network better" is actually to "stop networking." There are a myriad of reasons for that, not the least of which is networking feels like a game that can only be won by the big, Type-A, business-card-passing person. (That's not necessarily true, however.)
One of the big things wit…
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