The safest thing you can do in a world where personal and professional success is increasingly built on connections is to meet new people, gain new experiences, and develop resiliency. But what’s comfortable is to do none of those things.

My contribution to the advice canon for making friends follows a similar vein: Think of friendship as a tapestry. It starts with its first seams—a meeting at a party, an introduction, a spark at a concert. Sometimes you’re knitting it together, sometimes one person is working overtime, and sometimes you stop and look at what you’ve made and know th