I am fortunate to know people like Carey Lohrenz, the first female F14 combat pilot, who gave me the shirt in the picture above. She wrote a great book called Fearless Leadership, by the way, a Wall Street Journal bestseller about how to be a better personal leader and then how to lead others. She’s a top shelf kind of person to know, and I intend to connect with her as often as possible over the coming years. I added her to my Whatsapp account for that reason, too. I want to be able to connect with her when I need something, or when I have something to offer her.
This got me thinking about our networks.
You Need a Better Network
I’ve written about the concept of Monchu before (often!). It’s the idea of “one family,” or “the family you choose.” These are the people you want to see succeed, and the people you hope will help you succeed. They are those people who aren’t usually a customer or client (they can be), but rather, a fellow ally, someone you see fighting the same battle.
But how do you connect with them? Where can you keep tabs?
My friend, Bill Gross, runs a really cool project called Idea Market. People (like me) can take a big idea and share it with investors and developers and others who might want to get the job done.
When Bill asked me what I wanted to invent, I told him I wanted the Monchu app. I wanted a way to better connect with a small set of people in a meaningful way.
What I realized, technologically, was that this isn’t Path, this isn’t Facebook or Twitter, or anything else that’s out there. It’s different. It’s something that shouldn’t want to be supported by ads (not unlike Ello, in that one way), but something where the concept of network means “smaller,” means “tighter formed.”
Whether or not this idea goes through to fruition, I want you to consider the concept, because HOW you are staying connected to the people you most need to keep connected with is broken. And we all need a better network.
Check out my Idea here.