Playing With Networking Weekly Recap (12/27/2025)
December 27, 2025·0 comments·zg
Let's connect some dots from this week's notes...
But first - happy anniversary, Valle! Another “good” year (re: s’wonderful, beeyooteeful, and further proof the best things happen while you’re dancing).
52 Sundays, One Year: A Discipline Disguised As Joy
Fifty-two posts. One song per week. A full year of listening mapped out with all the thinking behind it - not a "Spotify Wrapped" thing, but a map of what moved you and why. The habit of paying attention to music is really just the habit of staying intentional in a world designed to move you too fast to notice. LISTEN to the list on Spotify or Apple!
The LESSS Framework: How to Do Better by Doing Less
Here's the frame that cuts through heading into 2026: Why are you doing it? What does it do? Who's it for? What transformation is at its core? Is it enterprise or boutique? The real power sits in that last question - because misframing your offer is the fastest way to feel like you're failing when you're actually working exactly right.
Marketing Is Sales At Scale: Four Business Relationships That Change Everything
Once you know what you're building, here's where you actually fit: Enterprise B2B (repeatable playbooks), Enterprise B2C (narrative and performance channels), Boutique B2B (one reference call opens three more), or Boutique B2C (the experience becomes the sales mechanism). Salesforce, Netflix, Louis Vuitton, and your neighborhood handyman - all different, all right in their boxes.
2025's Top 10 Intentional Investor Moments: A Clip Show Arguing Against Clip Shows
Here's the paradox: a year-end clip show to argue against clip shows. If all you do is consume TikTokified shorts, you're working with puzzle pieces and never seeing the picture. These highlights are invitations back into the full conversations - trailers, not movies. Because listening is where you really feel alive.
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