[robertothais]

I like to think of networking as being loosely analogous to an optimization process like gradient descent [1]. You start with an initial "guess" of what your optimal network could potentially be. In practice, this will be the people you already know through school, work or through friendships. From there, you follow an iterative process that improves that guess through successive iterations, consistently applying strategies like those described in the article.

It's hard to say when this process would "converge", but looking for an answer to that may be straining the analogy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_descent