#Introduction

A business card is an official passport in the ritual of networking: a slip of paper valid only at the moment of exchange. It masquerades as a tool for self-introduction, yet in reality serves as a prop to flaunt one’s title and affiliation. It generates a silent mixture of superiority and humiliation between giver and receiver, only to collect dust on a desk thereafter. A cold, unfeeling card saturated with power harassment and narcissistic longing. In modern business society, it reigns as a silent symbol of authority valued above words.

A referral is the social ritual of transforming a person into a mere credential to borrow one's worth. Under the guise of preserving friendly relations, it is in fact a provisional contract to secure future favors. The referrer commodifies gratitude, while the referee is left with a guilty sense of obligation. In business, it works as a convenient magic that conjures debt under the name of "trust." In the end, everyone tiptoes around each other's egos, starved for the next connection.