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Expanding Dunbar's Number - Theo Tarr

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Why cold outreach is dead.

In 1992, Robin Dunbar proposed that the human brain can maintain roughly 150 stable relationships: real, reciprocal, I-know-what's-going-on-in-your-life relationships. Five people you'd call at 3am. Fifteen close friends. Fifty you'd invite to dinner. And 150 you'd recognize, trust, and actually keep up with. Beyond that, relationships decay, not from malice, but from the quiet accumulation of missed texts and forgotten follow-ups. For most of history, 150 was enough. I don't think it is anymore. Cold Power Is Dying The early internet gave us something intoxicating: the ability to reach anyone

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