Every day I make a few introductions because I can't help myself. I'm a #Superconnector and want these people to know each other. Sadly, I am always like 30-50 intros behind because I may have a list after one chat of who could be beneficial. My biggest frustration is finding out about something or someone I know I can help grow and not have the capacity to be available in a meaningful way.
The question about how I make money comes up at a point. This friction in the flow has yet to be solved in a way that feels good often because people do not value connections and because connectors are, by nature, generous and gift their #relationships.
Unfortunately, those that are most talented with this natural gift must sustain themselves in other ways. Imagine if we told artists and athletes to ignore what they are best at.
It's why I wonder how can we free the #connectors?
For now, I trust the karma piece. I am patient knowing tech is being built and I will wait a little longer.
I have made billions of dollars for people and not even had a thank you. In venture, they oppose paying someone for a referral and God forbid you help an #entrepreneur raise funds if you are not a broker dealer even though the thing every #startup needs is resources and cash flow.
And... This is why I got excited about #SSID and how things like Verus.io and their smart transactions (identity at the base layer with privacy upon choice not default) can work. I believe we should get rewarded for us - our anonymized data, likeness, content, creativity, and yes, connections.
Yet there is still a self-reported part of what my friend, David Homan, calls valuing the chain of connection.
The Who leads us to everything.
This documentation of the impact of connection, especially when I put someone together that takes years to have what they created together flourish, or if it's an intangible in business like a lifelong friendship, is not something easy to see in an immediate conversion like a click or a completed contract.
Yet connection is what builds innovation.
This is why I came back to the idea of a goodness token as a way for people to say thank you. Zaps and sats in places like Nostr are that. Value for value.
Over time we will change how we approach these things. Yet, there may never be a tech that can track what gratitude provides.
This is why just saying Thank You is important because we are seeing through eyes of gratitude.
Until then, I will measure my value in kindness to all my many selves and to others and listen for where I can hear more thank yous from loving hearts.
Musing while under a palm tree with potentially threatening coconuts. The force is with me. Thank you jellyfish for staying in your area and thank you nature for my safe airspace to contemplate and connect...
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