Our listeners are mainly tech guys and a lot of them do not fully recognize the value of social skills and building social capital. Can you talk about your story that made you realize the importance of developing one's connections?

(the story about the partner in the Wall Street firm)

What is social capital?

What happens when one has the attitude of "I know my tech skills so I don't need to network"? What do they lose out on?

If someone realizes the importance of building one's social capital, where should they start? Can you talk about 3 action steps and elaborate on them?

How should one build rapport? Tech guys we speak to frequently tell us that they do not know how to build rapport with people. How does one go about doing that?

After meeting people, how can one build a process to remember the people one has met? What does Jordan personally do to remember them the people he has spoken to to?

What does "leveraging one's network" mean and how does one go about doing that effectively?

Are there any tools you can recommend to build a process around this? What are (say) your top 3 tools?

How does one go about building a magnetic personality

How many interviews have you done so far?

Can you talk about how difficult it is to do these interviews? How much effort is required behind the scenes?

How has Jordan maintained the persistence to keep doing this for so many years?

Tell us about these interviews - how do you decide who to interview? What do you attempt to accomplish from these interviews?

Of all the interviews you've done so far, which are the top 3 that have created the most impression? Can you speak about those 3?

Have you noticed any patterns of success in these people? What separates heavy hitters from average ones?

How have your own social capital and people skills improved from having done these interviews?

Can you talk about your new podcast? Why should one subscribe?

What can listeners like me expect to see in future episodes of the podcast?

Is there anything else that I should have asked here but did not?

In general, you can see the wisdom exuding from Jordan's answers - I don't think any of this was rehearsed! He is just a smart, wise, confident guy

Jordan speaks about Body Language, Non-nonverbal communication and techniques such as the Doorway Drill technique, Rapport-building techniques, Social capital-building

Tools such as Contactually, intimate ways of engaging with people, Double opt-in intros

Could you briefly talk about your background?

What got you interested in technology?

What is TaUB Solutions and what do you do for your clients?

What exactly is DevOps? 

What is SRE and Platform Reliability Engineer and what is the difference between that and DevOps?

Could you please explain with an example of a workflow that involves DevOps?

Some people think DevOps is a glorified Operational role. Is that true? What makes DevOps sexy?

Is it possible that different companies could use the term DevOps in different ways? What could be other possible definitions of DevOps?

Please walk us through an example of a typical day in the life of a DevOps engineer.

What are some of the misconceptions about DevOps?

What makes a good DevOps candidate?

What is the career path like for someone in DevOps?

How will DevOps evolve in the future?

Would a DevOps engineer need to have knowledge of Cloud Technologies?

In what situations would it make sense to not have a DevOps model?