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That said, much like [internal communication](https://lethain.com/internal-comms-execs/), networking is a relatively mechanical skill. Building a large network doesn’t require genius socialization skills, it only requires ongoing focus and attention.
Building Your Executive Network.
lethain.com
I used to be an investment banker, and I enjoy reading profiles of successful investment bankers in part because they help me understand why I was not, myself, a successful investment banker.
Money Stuff: IRL’s Users Were Not IRL
Matt Levine
Imagine we want to compute the square root of a number n. The basic idea of [*Heron’s method*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_computing_square_roots#Heron's_method), named after the mathematician and engineer, Heron of Alexandria, is to find a number g that is close to and to then average that with the number n/g, which corrects for the fact that g either over- or underestimates .
Estimating Square Roots in Your Head
Gregory Gundersen
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