Last night I went to F.I.E.S.T.A., a networking event that promised founders, investors, entrepreneurs, startups, and tech.
There were certainly founders and investors. Plenty of conversations about startups. AI came up more than once. There were also people changing careers, exploring new ideas, or simply spending a Tuesday evening in a room full of strangers looking for connection, possibility, or perhaps just one conversation that might change everything.
Like most networking events, everyone wore a name tag and had an answer ready for the inevitable question:
“So, what do you do?”
One of my favorite introductions came from a founder who said, “If you’re looking for me afterward, I’m the short guy with the big biceps.”
I laughed. Naturally, I found him later.
We started by talking about lifting weights. A few minutes later we were talking about startups. Somewhere along the way, I realized neither was the real topic.
We were talking about the invisible work that always precedes visible results.
A few days earlier, I had been interviewed by Navalayo Osembo for her newsletter, In Defense of Generalism. Of all the ideas we discussed, she chose to focus on one I've written about for years:
The rooms may change. The conversation doesn’t.
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