Welcome to my new blog. Now that the semester is over, I have more time to fill the interweb with banalities and fluff. Just kidding! I have decided to blog about meaningful things, you know, stuff that is worth reading. In fact, the theme I chose for this blog is “big ideas in bite-sized portions”.

I am reading a great book called Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi. The Big Idea of the book is that networking should be meaningful, in fact it shouldn’t even be called “networking”, it should be called building relationships. One of his Big Ideas is that you should keep a written record of great ideas you come across. Not really a new idea, right!

Well, the Big Idea part of it is that he suggests you keep a record of great ideas and share them with people that you want to keep in contact with. There are people we want to keep in contact with, just aren’t sure of a better way of doing it than saying, “Hey, I was thinking about you and wanted to say hi.” Sure, that’s a decent way of keeping in touch, but why not add value to their lives while touching base?

So, when you make contact, share a valuable bit of information that you have recently learned. That Big Idea led to the birth of this blog. This blog will be the receptacle for the big ideas I come across. That way I have them indexed and easily accessible, and maybe they will add value to your life!

Tags: Keith Ferrazzi, networking, Never Eat Alone

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