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Second-Degree Dinners: The Best Way to Meet Cool People in Your City | Nat Eliason | Nat Eliason

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Four months ago I moved to Austin knowing no one in the city but my 9 coworkers and a couple of acquaintances. The problem I immediately needed to solve was: “How do I find interesting new people?” I tried Meetups, bars, events, all the typical places. But in almost every case, the return on investment in terms of “interesting people met” to “time spent” was terrible. The best way to find people seemed to be to meet someone interesting, then try to meet as many of their close friends as possible. But getting your friends (especially new ones) to throw parties or invite you out to things doesn’t scale and makes you feel needy, so how do you get looped into everyone’s friend network at once? These dinners are hands down the best way to meet cool people in your city in a way that’s fun, inexpensive, helps everyone involved, and even makes the participants feel special. Here’s how they work. A Second-Degree Dinner brings together 6 people who, mostly, don’t know each other. There are two “

Second-Degree Dinners: The Best Way to Meet Cool People in Your City December 14, 2015 Four months ago I moved to Austin knowing no one in the city but my 9 coworkers and a couple of acquaintances. The problem I immediately needed to solve was: “How do I find interesting new people?” I tried Meetups, bars, events, all the typical places. But in almost every case, the return on investment in terms of “interesting people met” to “time spent” was terrible. The best way to find people seemed to be to meet someone interesting, then try to meet as many of their close friends as possible. But getting

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