Agility - Narrow and Deep, or Shallow and Wide?

I'm finding I need a new discipline in both my active (contact) and passive (reading / watching) networking as we start the first tentative steps out of local lockdown. The challenge is that there is far more out there, people and content, that interests me than I can do justice to.

There are times, particularly when I've encountered a new subject or idea, when I need to go shallow and wide; to gather lots of different information and perspectives as I work out my own position on it, and the contribution I want to make. After that, I need to go narrow and deep to get into the weeds of the subject so that I can make a hopefully original contribution that adds to the subject.

Oscillating between the two is a challenge. Interesting people and ideas turn up without appointment when I'm diving into something, and I have to work out what to do. To ignore them seems rude, and yet to stop what I'm doing to pay proper attention to them is a distraction.

I'm finding the answer is to share them. In…