@betterwallet: till processing everything from speaking at the Maconomics Wealth Summit at the Obama Presidential Center a few weeks ago. Here’s what nobody tells you about rooms like that: the panels matter, but the real education happens in the hallway conversations. The dinner table. The 10 minutes before you go on stage. You can’t Google your way into that kind of knowledge. You have to be in the room for it to rub off on you. Proximity is a strategy. Get around people who are further along than you, and osmosis does the rest.