True, but nitpicking about the memorability: The long-term value may not be in the short-term value of the conversation itself. It may be in the introduction to someone by someone you briefly got to know in an itself low-value conversion, by the email for a job getting forwarded to you etc. You wouldn’t necessarily say the conversation was memorable, but the value likely wouldn’t have been realized without it.
It doesn’t need to be a singular high-value conversation. I’d say the long-term value of conversations is heavy tailed and so it may pay to have lots of conversations of low expected value. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780124424500500250
If conversations are heavy tailed then we should in fact expect people to have singular & likely memorable high-value conversations.
True, but nitpicking about the memorability: The long-term value may not be in the short-term value of the conversation itself. It may be in the introduction to someone by someone you briefly got to know in an itself low-value conversion, by the email for a job getting forwarded to you etc. You wouldn’t necessarily say the conversation was memorable, but the value likely wouldn’t have been realized without it.