Clubland: Ditch Your Networkers

Leave a comfortable seat for your connectors instead.

“No, I don’t want to add you on LinkedIn,” I barked. 

Nolan and I had met roughly five minutes before I uttered those words. We both were young and spending our summers as interns in Washington, D.C.; he for the Senate Finance Committee while I was writing for Reason, a libertarian magazine. During that summer, we both had learned about the power of “net…