Coaching practices for How to Improve My Network Speed
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- I only check in on whether something’s working every few months, and by then I can barely remember what I even tried
- I’ve been hyper-focused on hitting one number
- I have a vague sense my network is just the same handful of people who all already know each other, and I can’t see where the gaps are
- I keep practicing the whole thing over and over and my overall level just won’t budge
- I keep noticing that two people I know from totally different corners of my life really ought to meet
Practices that may help
- Shorten your PDSA cycles until feedback is near-daily
More loops beat longer loops: compress the cycle time to accelerate learning.
Plan–Do–Study–Act: Deming’s Loop for Personal Improvement - Change the metric you’re optimizing
Shift which outcome you measure and the problem often dissolves or transforms entirely.
Problem Reframing: Solving the Right Problem First - Map your network clusters
Draw out the distinct social worlds you move in to find where your bridges are thin.
The Strength of Weak Ties - Drill: attack your weakest sub-skill
Isolate the rate-limiting component and drill it directly.
Ultralearning: Aggressive, Self-Directed Learning - Make cross-cluster introductions
Introduce two people from different clusters who genuinely benefit from meeting.
The Strength of Weak Ties - Follow up every meaningful interaction
Send a specific, timely follow-up after every conversation that matters.
Never Eat Alone: Building a Real Network - VO2 max intervals (Zone 4–5) to push your aerobic ceiling
Four-minute intervals at near-maximal effort, repeated 4–6 times, are the most efficient way to raise your VO2 max.
VO2 Max and Longevity: Training Your Aerobic Ceiling - Work at a dramatically different speed
Do the stuck task ten times faster or ten times slower — the speed change changes the output.
Oblique Strategies, Made Practical - Become the connector in every room
Make it your personal brand to know who should meet whom.
Never Eat Alone: Building a Real Network - Use HIIT for rapid VO2max gains when time is limited
High-intensity interval training raises VO2max in as little as 6–8 weeks — the fastest known training route to a higher aerobic ceiling.
VO2max Training
Related concerns
- After Event Networking
Send a specific, timely follow-up after every conversation that matters.
Follow up every meaningful interaction
- Career Networking Strategy
Make it your personal brand to know who should meet whom.
Become the connector in every room
- Expand Professional Network
Keith Ferrazzi’s approach treats networking as ongoing generosity rather than transactional deal-making: connect people, share knowledge, follow through, and show real interest. The evidence base is largely practitioner experience and case studies — honest about what it is — but the underlying principles align with well-studied reciprocity and social capital research.
- Giving In Networking
Enter every networking context asking what you can give, not what you can get.
Lead with generosity, not an agenda
- Granovetter Networking Theory
Sociologist Mark Granovetter found that weak ties — casual acquaintances rather than close friends — are disproportionately valuable for finding jobs, opportunities, and novel information, because they bridge social clusters you wouldn’t otherwise reach. The effect is well supported observationally and has held up across multiple replication attempts.
- How Exactly Does One Actively Network When Looking For A New Job
Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
Build and work a target list of roles and organisations
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