The Network Illusion: Depth over quantity in career relationships
thetripathi58 · x · 2026-08-24
The post challenges the 'Network Illusion', advising engineers to ignore shallow connections and build exactly 3-5 deep relationships with people one level above them who will tell the truth. Quality compounds, while noise does not.
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