What Happened When I Called One New Person a Week

Networking from home has become a seriously valuable skill

Michael Thompson
Forge
Published in
3 min readNov 18, 2020

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About a month into the pandemic, I received a flurry of emails that boiled down to this: Half of my work contracts were being cut. At first, I was frantic. But quickly, I was able to replace the lost contracts with new ones. How? I owe it all to a practice I’ve been doing for the…

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Michael Thompson
Forge
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