- Find a common contact
- Join a shared organization
- Email about their recent article or book
- Marry into the family
- Ask a compelling question at a conference or workshop
- Run into them in an elevator
- Create something they want to buy
- Go to the same barber
- Write a series of blog posts about their work. Ask for an interview
- Win an Oscar. Thank them in your speech.
Category: Work
10 Almost Ridiculously Broad Ideas in the Pursuit of Being Better
- Learn to cook healthier food
- Call my parents more often
- Call my brothers more often
- Work harder to stay in touch with my friends
- Read more books
- Stop being so frustrated with myself
- Be a better listener
- Take more walks
- Think critically
- Blog more
Simon Ouderkirk 