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Re: Networking for introverts

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post #11

I think extroversion and introversion are just orthogonal skill sets. The solution can simply be “get better at extroversion.” For instance, small talk. You may style yourself as someone too intellectual to be entertained by small talk, and profess to be terrible at making small talk. This is to misunderstand the value proposition of small talk, which is to establish trust and rapport with strangers before you commit…

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Re: Networking for introverts

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"Quiet Contemplation for Extroverts: A How-To Guide to Sitting the Fuck Still For an Hour"

I'm fine as I am as an introvert, thank you very much. Maybe we're not the only ones who need to be more accommodating of the world?

Re: Networking for introverts

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Ignore this, my bias is that I am in fact an introvert....

1. Figure out what subjects you are passionate about. 2. Now, figure out what medium you can express that in 3. given those two choices the SM platforms to use would be Instagram LinkedIN X Youtube Medium 4. Now the money part....the value is knowledge+access That means in your chain of SM output you want to eventually pivot to something like one day of streaming on Youtube

*Important! Medium just changed their revenue algos...you get paid more for reads at Medium now, I will clear just under $1k this month and will be under 25k views...and yet I am busy building code for some textbooks I am writing....

Re: Networking for introverts

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post #11

I think extroversion and introversion are just orthogonal skill sets. The solution can simply be “get better at extroversion.” For instance, small talk. You may style yourself as someone too intellectual to be entertained by small talk, and profess to be terrible at making small talk. This is to misunderstand the value proposition of small talk, which is to establish trust and rapport with strangers before you commit…

What you describe has nothing to do with introversion or extroversion. Those are social skills and, yes, they're learnable. My favorite book on the subject is superhuman social skills by Tynan. He's an introvert.

If you're curious, Introversion and Extroversion are characterized by different brain chemistry. Introverts make more heavy use of the acetylcholine pathways in the brain and Extroverts make more heavy use of the dopamine/adrenaline pathways in the brain. A more detailed analysis can be found here: https://musingsonmormonism.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/easily-t...

Re: Networking for introverts

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post #11

I think extroversion and introversion are just orthogonal skill sets. The solution can simply be “get better at extroversion.” For instance, small talk. You may style yourself as someone too intellectual to be entertained by small talk, and profess to be terrible at making small talk. This is to misunderstand the value proposition of small talk, which is to establish trust and rapport with strangers before you commit…

> The solution can simply be “get better at extroversion.”

I agree completely as a former shut-in. I just forced myself to be as extroverted as possible for a while until it came more naturally. I still prefer to be an introvert and have a 'social battery' limit but now I actually understand socialization and can start/direct conversations for my own goals/enjoyment.

It was difficult in the beginning but I just thought a lot about the words I and others used: how they were delivered, and the underlying motivation behind them (even if it was trivial small talk).

Re: Networking for introverts

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where can I pay for information presented in such a short, clear and to-the-point manner? Preferably human generated as well (no to robots). I dream about having access to this kind of internet.

Hacker News, of course! :) I am curious though, why human generated only? AI is getting better at summarizing everyday. Does it really matter if you cannot tell the difference?

Because AI is going to give me a summary of what the article said. I don't want that. I want a summary of the relevant parts of what the article said. And if it's appropriate, I want a cynical, "this is baloney/marketing/clickbait/propaganda" summary.

Re: Networking for introverts

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Most of the article appears to be about what does not work. Here is the relevant part from the bottom of the page- > The real secret is to save your energy for the people who are most likely to be interesting to you. > The sweet spot in networking on LinkedIn is someone with moderately weak ties to you: connecting with a person with ten mutual friends markedly increases the probability of changing jobs compared with…

Where can I pay for information presented in such a short, clear and to-the-point manner? Preferably human generated as well (no to robots). I dream about having access to this kind of internet.

I've seen it mostly in finance websites, where they often have keynotes at the top for a quick glance. I think the last time I've seen in this in a different context was probably an article in The Verge.

Re: Networking for introverts

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How come such an article ends up with 30+ points? There's literally no meaningful information. I'd look into what accounts upvoted this link, something seems off.

There are supposedly many introverts frequenting HN and longing for any help they could get in building their network. Some of them probably reflexively upvoted the article without looking at it first. Since it's impossible to un-vote a story, those upvotes remained even as they came back here to complain about lack of meaningful content in the article.

Re: Networking for introverts

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post #8

What is this article even about? And what does this even mean: >In the offline world, a tool like Chatgpt should make it easier to find useful prospects in a list of event attendees. So, should you feed a list of conference attendees to chatgpt and ask who to talk to? And how? I personally go to conferences quite often, I'm terrible at networking but force myself to talk to people and I do have some results but I can…

I think the idea is "figure out a list of people who appear to have shared interests whom you might enjoy talking to", but the chatgpt reference does appear odd indeed

Re: Networking for introverts

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How come such an article ends up with 30+ points? There's literally no meaningful information. I'd look into what accounts upvoted this link, something seems off.

The article is shit; I just wanted to encourage more discussion on the topic in the comments.
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