Not if you consider the people you meet as being possible resources.
A good friend once told me that a big barrier to my success would be that I tended to be a loner. He was right and it's a reason I force myself to be more social and outgoing. People are interesting in their own right, and at some time in the future, someone you met briefly a long time ago might be just the person you need to break through a barrier.
I thought maybe being relentelessly resourceful was kind of a nerd trait, at least in the sense PG uses it.
He talks about building alliances as something apart from being resourceful in the essay.
Does someone who can't do a thing, but knows people that are relentlessly resourceful become an relentelessly resourceful person too?
A good friend once told me that a big barrier to my success would be that I tended to be a loner. He was right and it's a reason I force myself to be more social and outgoing. People are interesting in their own right, and at some time in the future, someone you met briefly a long time ago might be just the person you need to break through a barrier.