Observe. Orient. Decide. Act.
A fighter-pilot framework on a networking note card, because rooms are dogfights.
Observe: first ten minutes, no approaches.
Who knows who. Where the host orbits. Which circle laughs loudest.
Orient: stand where the traffic already flows.
Near the bar line, the food, the door.
Never trapped in a corner conversation you cannot leave.
Decide: pick three people, not thirty.
Know the one question you want each to answer.
Act: cold open, early, while everyone is fresh.
Then loop it. The room changes every twenty minutes.
The person who keeps re-reading the room wins it.
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