Building a Less is More Network

Or how I went from 30,000 connections to 1,000 true fans

LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and the like are all built on a simple premise. The more you create, the more people follow you, the more others start to create, and so on. This perpetual cycle is built on an idea that originated over 40 years ago called Metcalfe’s Law.

Robert Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet and founder of computer networking firm 3Com, described the value of connecting computers as “N squared”. This means that the usefulness of a network…