The Power of Kevin Bacon’s Six Degrees of Separation
When we opened our New York office, seven-day workweeks were common. One Sunday afternoon, after boarding a flight from New York to Cincinnati, I overheard the young man seated next to me talking on his cell phone with one of his college roommates. He was asking his roommate if he would pick him up from the airport. It appeared that his roommate’s response was an emphatic “no.” The football game on television took precedence over the 90-minute ride to the airport.
After the young man ended the conversation, he hung up and seemed to be deep in thought. He was trying to figure out how he was going to get from the airport to the university. After a few minutes, I asked him which university he ...
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