Social Capitalisation

You have social capital and clueless people are always trying to spend it for you.

“Can you introduce me to investors that will finance me?”

“Can you introduce me to other engineers that will work for free?”

“Can you get me a job at that company I am completely unqualified for or incapable of performing?”

Jealously guard all of your social capital you have accumulated , invest it wisely, and it will pay dividends. Your net worth is in what your network is worth.

Frittering away your social capital on someone with toxic social credit is never a good idea.

You can be generous and make a huge donation of your social capital, paying it forward to the next generation of writers, actors, engineers, artists, musicians and entrepreneurs.

But never, ever give social capital away to a social spendthrift.

Tomorrow they will be back again with their hand out.