A batch of the best highlights from what Lukas's read, .
Kindness is a way of knowing people beyond our understanding of them.
On Kindness
Adam Phillips, Barbara Taylor
Second, develop a list of co-advisors who operate entirely independently, and who can be brought in at key moments to do the things you have elected not to offer. Ideally you will have no financial relationship with these people (i.e., no referral fees), you will freely pre-identify them in various conversations, and you will not try to white-label them by obscuring the direct relationship they will want to have with your clients. Doing it this way preserves some of what your clients will be missing by enabling them to be “served” by a set of vetted experts outside your direct control.
Secret Tradecraft of Elite Advisors
David C. Baker, Emily Mills, and Bryn Mooth
In practice, "using" social capital means putting our networks into action and servicefor others. The great paradox is that by contributing to others, you are helped in return, often far in excess of what anyone would expect or predict.