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Post-Dunbar - Sara Du

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In the past 365 days, I’ve Zoomed 2313 unique people (if you’d like a copy of my script, leave a comment and I’ll shoot it over). Add the IRL connections from dinners, conferences, and happy hours, and subtract the people I already knew, and it comes out to about 2000 net new people. The last time I came close to that scale of memorization was when I had to cram 43 presidents, 118 periodic table elements, and 1021 Pokemon during a particularly busy stretch in middle school. I started thinking about all this because of something embarrassing that happened last week. I was fresh off of a Europe trip and decided to go to a happy hour my investor was hosting. Jetlagged, I made my way over to the bar and was stopped by a very excited “Long time no see!” I looked up and tried to figure out who this guy was — A customer? A former classmate? Someone I’d met at a trade show years ago? I tried to buy myself some time and blurted out the classic “How’ve you been?,” as I continued to frantically s

In the past 365 days, I’ve Zoomed 2313 unique people (if you’d like a copy of my script, leave a comment and I’ll shoot it over). Add the IRL connections from dinners, conferences, and happy hours, and subtract the people I already knew, and it comes out to about 2000 net new people. The last time I came close to that scale of memorization was when I had to cram 43 presidents, 118 periodic table elements, and 1021 Pokemon during a particularly busy stretch in middle school. I started thinking about all this because of something embarrassing that happened last week. I was fresh off of a…

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