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My Real Network
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Names, not a feeling.
Names the people who are actually in your life and when you last spoke.
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Everything worth your time on the question: Who would notice if I disappeared for a week?
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Who is actually in my life: talk it throughREAD · BOOK
How Many Friends Does One Person Need?
Robin Dunbar
Dunbar's layered circles explain why the number of people you can genuinely keep up with is small, and why guilt about the rest is misplaced.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
Mark Granovetter
Granovetter's paper is the reason acquaintances matter more than they feel like they should. Useful when a life looks thin but is actually broad and shallow.
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