A short talk (YouTube video) from Precursor Ventures discussing how to remain 'top of mind' in professional relationships. The speaker contrasts being forgotten versus intentionally excluded, notes most people forget rather than actively ignore, and emphasizes proactive engagement rather than waiting for signals or triggers (e.g., platform notifications).
And I think the question is always, did the person forget about me, or did the person make the active decision not to include me? And I have found the number of people, on average, who will actively consider you and ignore you is fairly low. And when that happens, usually you shouldn't be surprised, because it's usually because something that happened in a previous working or personal relationship. I find oftentimes people just forget about you. And so every time this happens after that, like, momentary ooh, that hurt, I always think, what could I have done better to stay top of mind for that person? And it's interesting. We live in a world of harmonic inspector and LinkedIn sales navigator and all of these ways to track people, but if you wait for the trigger or the signal, you're probably too late.
