100 CONNECTIONS PROJECT UPDATE [Phoebe Dobbs' challenge to have 100 meaningful conversations]

PROGRESS: 41/100 conversations complete | DAY 46

THIS WEEK: 10 conversations

BREAKTHROUGH: Not all conversations are planned, keep your door open to last minute invites + show up.

CONNECTION RECAPS (The Conversations)

🍕 Max Pete in Philly

• All round excellent dude + community expert

• Phone call while walking dog.

• Fab tips on networking using the 5×5 method, 5 reachouts each work day = 100 reconnects in one month. Somtimes you don’t need a full blown call to progress.

✨ Michelene in BK

• Founder and champion of community spaces

• Video zoom.

• Pep talks about doing it your way in the BK, realized we have a mutual friend in LM

🫖 Lyubov in London

• Strategy at Feeld

• Video zoom. met via Emily Segal’s writing workshop

• Ask yourself: Who do I want to be and new identity? if I’m on a panel who do I want to sit next to. Who do I want my peers to be

🐴 María Alejandra in Nashville

• UX Designer, reached out to me on LI

• Voice call on zoom.

• Noticed she used the word ‘radical’ to describe my LinkedIn presence, appreciated it. Take risks, fail, change direction - no worries

🎙 Matt in BK

• Design Director at Insurance Company Startup

• IRL for beers at my ex-bf’s birthday

• Avant Garde work philosophy, likes naps and deals at Century 21. We were former colleagues designing art books once upon a time.

🧶 Alexandra in BK

• Strategy, researcher, textile designer at Terrain

• IRL for beers at my ex-bf’s birthday

• Old friends and collaborators, we used to have a textile studio together

🚛 Dan in BK

• Illustrator and professor at SVA

• IRL for beers at my ex-bf’s birthday

• Dan was very interested in life on LinkedIn, investors, startups.

🚘 Miri in NYC

• Founder of Zeen, now working at early stage co

• Quickie phone call

• Catch up with founder friend, excited to see where she’s going. Working with early founders of Pinterest

🎱 Offer in BK

• Inner-outer circle Mamdani, DSA

• Dinner friend at Sailor

• Talked about job offers, how to decide when to decline and keep the door open for future positions that fit better

🧀 Sarah in BK

• California-state Fed lawyer, writes legislation

• Dinner friend at Sailor

• Partner works at Netflix, talked about product design, department consolidation, fire arms legislation and fires (in LA)

WHAT I'M TAKING AWAY

New ideas that landed:

• I am a network architect

• Shifting gears as the convos progress and new goals/ideas arise

• Really into Max and Lyubov’s tips and framing

Questions I'm sitting with:

• Should I open an ice cream parlor with Alex?

• Is this a skill more people want to hone?

• Can I get people into walking and talking?

Shifts in my thinking:

• You make the rules as to who gets on this list

• Some ppl just float in front of you and land on the list

• I’d like to do this practice again more closely tied to goals.

LOGISTICS

Wins last week:

• ✅ Completed 5 calls

• ✅ Completed 5 IRL hangs

Bumps:

• 0️⃣ Rescheduled/missed call

Next up:

• 📅 1 call scheduled (holiday week)

• 🎯 Reach out to 5 more ppl I admire

Thanks for reading. These updates are more for me to track progress and hold myself accountable. See it as ‘building in public’ model.