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Inverted Networking - connect me with Chicago folks?

Michael writes:

I’m starting a new practice, which I’m calling Nestworking, an inverted or locally-focused sort of networking.For years, I’ve been expanding a global network of friends and colleagues. Now I want to actively request the good people I know around the world to connect me with interesting people they know or meet from Chicago. In this way, I want to turn my network back in on itself, and use it to help me find others who are active in global conversations — AND living and working here in town.

Mostly we think of extending networks, but this is a sort of local thickening, the practice of which has been new to everyone I’ve asked about it. Seems promising in a region of eight million or more people. I want to find those who live simultaneously in Chicago and in bigger global circles.

Who do you know is making good in Chicago and the world? This might be a quiet little series of connecting conversations or blossom as the next generation of GlobalChicago networking. Who do you think I should I know in Chicago?

This idea came up at dinner a couple of weeks ago and it must’ve been Michael’s idea.  Or at least he’s the first one to put it into practice that I know about.  I make the same request of you.  Who do you know in Chicago that I should know.  I pledge to follow-up with each connection with an invitation for coffee at the very least.