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How to reach out to people when you're tired and busy and distracted

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If you’re an actor in NYC, networking can feel like a vicious and performative game of social climbing. If you try to approach important people through official channels you’ll be one of the 100 singing, dancing, hot people trying to barge into the same inbox. (Turns out this is true for other industries too but with less hot people.) But one time I met a woman on the subway and we were carrying the same book (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s memoir). She had a bright orange bob and looked like she got her glasses from the MoMA design store. When she got off the train she gave me her card and told me I had good taste in books. She was the Executive Director of Lincoln Center. She was so impressive and intimidating and I was 22 and scared. this is a good omen so it behooves you to subscribe Who am I to reach out to her? It took me three months to finally gather the courage to email her, which felt like a stupid amount of time to wait. She probably didn’t remember me at this point. But I knew I’d a

If you’re an actor in NYC, networking can feel like a vicious and performative game of social climbing. If you try to approach important people through official channels you’ll be one of the 100 singing, dancing, hot people trying to barge into the same inbox. (Turns out this is true for other industries too but with less hot people.) But one time I met a woman on the subway and we were carrying the same book (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s memoir). She had a bright orange bob and looked like she got her glasses from the MoMA design store. When she got off the train she gave me her card and told me…

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