When the world feels rigged against us, the uncomfortable truth is this: the answer isn’t to fight the system—it’s to learn how to rig it in your favor. And the tool for doing that is networking.
The world runs on bias. Opportunities don’t flow to the most deserving—they flow through relationships, referrals, and who you know. Networking is simply the practice of creating those biases in your favor, of gaining access to the closed doors where decisions get made.
But here’s the urgent part: right now, humans are sitting on the money, making the hiring decisions, and opening the doors.
The day technology starts doing that job—and it’s coming—your chances of breaking through will shrink even further. Algorithms don’t have coffee with you. AI doesn’t remember your face from that conference.
So meet people. Create connections. Build relationships that generate biased results in your favor. Stay ahead while the game is still played by humans.