How do you network with people who are motivated, passionate, and actually doing something?<p>I love visiting coffee shops, but I like to connect with people who have the following attributes:<p>1. Motivated and building something
2. Isn't full of excuses or highly negative
3. Works on making progress daily
I used to join entrepreneurship groups, but 5 years later they're still sharing motivational posters on Facebook. I did find a good group by joining accelerators and pitching classes.<p>I'm in a very good group with some of the best engineers I've met in the field. But it comes at a cost of having to hold an engineering job.<p>Back when I was freelancing, I'd hang around people who were actually making good money off it. But after no longer freelancing, that group also mysteriously died down.<p>If you want to meet people who are committed, you have to commit to something.
To extend the question: how do you network with them remotely, when you don't live in a city or country with such people at your disposal in your language.
The best solution would be finding some kind of self-selection or filtering mechanism (eg: meetups, tech incubators, open source projects, maker fairs, maker spaces) that selects for people interested in building something interesting.<p>If you're looking online, Hackaday (<a href="https://hackaday.com/" rel="nofollow">https://hackaday.com/</a>) has an excellent variety of people working on DIY projects.<p>Someone recently started a Hacker News Learns discourse group which you might be interested in joining: <a href="https://discord.gg/WyRBDGgeCG" rel="nofollow">https://discord.gg/WyRBDGgeCG</a><p>There seem to be several highly motivated people there working on various interesting projects. You might find some other interesting ideas in this thread as well: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354994" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354994</a>