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Collecting business cards you'll never call, while pretending it's friendship.
means Building professional relationships to exchange opportunities, information, or favors, ideally before you need them.
from From 'network,' a 1500s word for interlaced threads or wires; the 1970s grafted it onto careers, turning humans into nodes passing value like data packets across a social grid.
Weak tiesDistant acquaintances land more jobs than close friends.
Coffee currencyThe unofficial unit of networking is a beverage.
Reciprocity ruleGiving first beats asking first, statistically.