Steeper Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is networking. The quick and dirty tip is to start with your current network. It's larger than you think.

And guys, don't get too excited. I said your network is larger than you think.

Some things are solitary activities. You can do them alone and everything's great. Crossword puzzles,

jogging, and literary criticism can all be done alone. But other favorite activities can only be done

in a group. Synchronized swimming, pub crawls, and mud wrestling come to mind.

I tried mud wrestling by myself once.

The joy was just gone.

Life is a group activity.

Humans are built to traveling groups, and virtually everything we do these days involves other people,

either directly or indirectly.

Old science fiction

novels painted a picture of the future where everything would be automated. Work would be

showing up to push a button. Do we really want that? Without other people, we have no one to order

around. No one to kow to for favor, except our sweetie, of course, and no one to give us ambiguous

unreasonable goals.

Life would be hell.

Fortunately, that's not our world.

In our world, people do key stuff in our lives.

People choose what to pay us.

People decide when to hire us, fire us, and promote us.

People give us tips, share our burdens, hug us, help us move, and, on our birthday,

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