Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

An opportunity is rarely a thing lying in the road, complete and waiting. Most of them are assembled: you tell someone what you are working on, you do a favour with no return in mind, you show up somewhere you were not required to be, and months later one of those threads turns into a door. Waiting to be found puts your life in other people’s diaries. Making the conditions yourself is slower at first, and it adds up.

Send three messages this week with no request attached, to people whose work you actually follow. Say what you are doing and ask what they are doing. Then let it sit.