Go to meet ups.<p>Go to conferences.  If you&#x27;re short on cash, go to where a conference is being held and hang out in the halls chatting people up.  Maybe security will kick you out, maybe they won&#x27;t.  Maybe they aren&#x27;t even checking who is going into the BOF sessions at night.<p>Go that one year old&#x27;s birthday party you were invited to being thrown by that older coworker of yours that you kinda know.  Maybe you&#x27;ll meet an interesting person who turns out to be your boss in ten years.<p>There&#x27;s lots of ways to meet people, it&#x27;s just not going to get thrown on your lap anymore.  You gotta go out and find it.