Head of people operations for the entire friend group
Ppl underestimate how proactive you need to be to make friends as an adult
For most of human history, adult friendship was a side effect of contexts where repeated casual interaction was ensured: neighborhoods, church, associations, etc
These contexts have largely disintegrated, but adults have not adapted. We’re still implicitly *waiting for fri... See more
Tyler Altermanx.comNote: Match people against their social velocity. Some people are extroverted, some introverted. The introverts do better with other introverts in your network. And less will mean more to them in terms of how many people you introduce them to. These people may feel overwhelmed if they have too many contacts; they have learned over the years how to
... See moreGene Stone • Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
Let me phrase what I’ve been saying in this essay in a slightly different way. What you want to create is a distributed apprenticeship in the art of being you. You want to assemble a set of influences you can observe and imitate, and peers and mentors that can give you feedback on how well you converge with that model of yourself.
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
