Friend of a Friend

Chapter #1

• Adam Rifkin
• Reconnect with old friends vs a room full of new people, prefer the former
• "Making and maintaining professional relations to others"

What's Important?

• "It's about knowing who is a friend of a friend."
• "It's about getting a full picture of the network you already have access to and learning how to improve it."
• "How to tend to the community the represent"
• "Will lead to better odds that your network will enhance your success"
• "How to improve your social capital. The inverse of physical capital. Obviously in both cases you need to know how to leverage that capital."

About understanding network structures and principals.

Concepts

• "Friend clusters"...there are cluster(s) that you're in, and ones that you're not. Weak ties, can help bridge.