I take it as a good wedding omen that it just gets harder and harder to be away from home. <\/p>\n
I’m done now with travel (I think) for the next couple of months and it feels really good to be home. So I’m starting a new practice, which I’m calling Nestworking<\/strong><\/em>, an inverted or locally-focused sort of networking<\/em>. <\/p>\n For years, I’ve been expanding a global network of friends and colleagues. Now I want to actively request the good people I know around the world to connect me with interesting people they know or meet from Chicago. In this way, I want to turn my network back in on itself, and use it to help me find others who are active in global conversations — AND<\/em> living and working here in town. <\/p>\n Mostly we think of extending networks, but this is a sort of local thickening<\/em>, the practice of which has been new to everyone I’ve asked about it. Seems promising in a region of eight million or more people. I want to find those who live simultaneously in Chicago and in bigger global circles. <\/p>\n Who do you know is making good in Chicago and the world? This might be a quiet little series of connecting conversations or blossom as the next generation of GlobalChicago<\/a> networking. Who do you think I should I know in Chicago?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I take it as a good wedding omen that it just gets harder and harder to be away from home. I’m done now with travel (I think) for the next couple of months and it feels really good to be home. So I’m starting a new practice, which I’m calling Nestworking, an inverted or locally-focused … <\/p>\n