: About Me

I write because I have to. Its a hardwired compulsion....

Richard

My passion is ...

Life

I know too much about ...

Economics and Theoretical Physics

My parents always told me ...

To be myself

My childhood ambition ...

To race Formula I in Monaco,

My favorite memory ...

A bullfight in Lisbon

Why I write ...

Because I must

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Fiction: The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Non FIction: Schrodinger's Rabbits

My first job ...

Research Physicist at Brookhaven Lab

My best moment ...

Racing a Motorcycle at Bridgehampton Racetrack

My inspiration ...

The generations that have gone before

Jobs & Careers > Getting Ahead Is LinkedIn an effective networking tool?

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Linkedin makes it possible for its members to acquire contacts and leads for a fraction of the cost of traditional lead generation methods. Here's how. This is easy enough to understand if we're talking about tangible, commodity types of objects. I've got high quality widgets and am looking for people who need widgets and are willing to pay a quality premium. The concept gets a bit murkier when the object begins to become more conceptual than tangible. For example, dating services (and more subtly social networks) looking to promote emotional transactions. Linkedin is unique. It is a netwo...

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