- college application help is my go-to example for how American guanxi works - in its most powerful form, it can't be a simple market transaction, but still grows out of business and power relationships
- well here's one news story about the thing I've been obsessively tweeting about for days (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
- Also I don't think some people understand how much the corporate world runs this way too. People mostly get jobs based on who they know and networking. Who hasn't had a useless coworker or an incompetent boss who was some big wig's son or neice or something.Feb 5, 2026 02:09
- if there is one piece of advice I can give college students, it's "don't feel bad if you can only land a shitty internship that sucks, most of the kids with prestigious internships have well-connected mommies and daddies"
