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A handshake at a Buckhead meetup that went differently than expected
About five years ago at a tech mixer, a guy named Mark from a small startup, after a brief chat, just handed me his phone with his contact info already pulled up instead of a business card. He said, 'Cards get lost, but a contact gets saved.' That simple move cut out the whole 'I'll email you' dance. Has anyone else had a small networking habit from someone else stick with them for years?
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anthony_jackson319d ago
That "cards get lost" line is pure gold.
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noahwood9d ago
It's more than just a polite fiction though. The line actually protects the game's magic by keeping the focus on the story. Admitting a tantrum would break that spell for everyone at the table.
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david_palmer9d ago
Gold is right. It's the perfect polite fiction that lets everyone save face while we all know exactly what happened. Someone got mad and threw the whole deck across the room. The "lost" cards are probably under the fridge with last year's pizza crust.
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