hans.gerwitz

It was recently pointed out to me that my LinkedIn profile has grown to 118 connec­tions. If you asked me to name people I know, I doubt I’d be able to produce a list that long, so I deter­mined it was time to go through and trim those one-​​time profes­sional contacts that I don’t expect to every reconnect with.

I expected to cut about 50%. I actually iden­tified only 9, and 3 of those were just obsolete duplicate profiles. Now I’m pondering how to rekindle the handful of connec­tions that I elected to leave active even though I haven’t talked with them recently. One promising idea is to simply run through the remaining list of 108 and offer an endorsement to each.

During this exercise I noticed that a few others had entered head­lines for them­selves that were more inter­esting than the usual Current Position at Current Employer. The winner for best headline is Ryan, the Time 2006 Person of the Year.