📝 note to self & others ✨
if you trust your own good taste — and identify a kindred spirit, a soul you suspect you'd vibe with — here on this our beloved internet — you really should reach out, say hey — because you're likely right — and why not spark a beautiful friendship?
📝 note to self & others ✨ if you trust your own good taste — and identify a kindred spirit, a soul you suspect you'd vibe with — here on this our beloved internet — you really should reach out, say hey — because you're likely right — and why not spark a beautiful friendship?
My writing is a beacon for new connections, ideas, and opportunities. Almost all my closest friends are people I’ve met on the internet. Reading somebody else’s writing is a great gauge of a person’s mind. It reveals how they think, what inspires them, and what they value.
Dan Shipper • How David Perell Writes an Essay
Try your best to seek out the like-hearted people with whom you feel this connection.
Austin Kleon • Keep Going
the spark is real. So trust yourself when you meet someone who feels familiar or comfortable, when there’s chemistry, when you sense you might be experiencing a kindred spirit. Following up with these promising seeds of connection will lift your chances of finding the deep friendships you are looking for.
Marisa G. Franco, PhD • Platonic: How Understanding Your Attachment Style Can Help You Make and Keep Friends
do find your tribe of collaborators and go deep with a handful, involving them in the value building process — developing skills, building something together, etc.)
Substack • See your Career as a Product
Keely Adler added
Being open and honest about what you like is the best way to connect with people who like those things, too.
Austin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)
Confession: I’m being extremely selfish here
I’ve found that my deepest and most nourishing friendships are with people who are in touch with their feelings and bodies, who can feel their Calling, and who can sense that Life and Value matter
My entire Twitter presence is aimed at finding more people like that, and as much as possible, seducing mo... See more
Stuart Evans added
how to use twitter to make and stay in touch with extremely high quality friends:
1) find accounts whose thoughts you like
2) add to list
3) treat every tweet like a text they sent you
4) like + comment accordingly
off to follow my own good advice.
Stuart Evans added
if you’ve met someone recently who has that undefinable but obvious spark, consider putting them in play. It will mean the world to them—and to you.
Andy Sparks • Andy Sparks—Putting People in Play
sari and added