How Can I Meet Other Deep Workers?

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00:00:04.700 | Um, let's move on here.

00:00:06.500 | Alex, Alex asks, what's the best way to meet other deep workers?

00:00:12.200 | I'm a freelance writer.

00:00:14.260 | I make a living doing deep work.

00:00:16.060 | I love to meet regularly with other people who prioritize deep work to

00:00:19.680 | compare notes, discuss goals, et cetera.

00:00:21.700 | But I do not know where to find other people like this.

00:00:24.000 | Alex, that's a good question.

00:00:25.460 | I don't, I mean, I've been thinking about, I don't have an answer, first of all,

00:00:29.960 | I don't have a great answer for you, but it gets me brainstorming.

00:00:34.680 | Maybe we should, we should be involved in finding a better

00:00:38.660 | way of helping people do this.

00:00:40.040 | Like, I don't know, Jesse, what do you think about what would be good here?

00:00:45.400 | Like, I, let me tell you like a model that's interesting to me.

00:00:48.160 | Uh, Mr.

00:00:50.320 | Money Mustache, Pete Adney.

00:00:51.640 | Yeah.

00:00:51.960 | I was thinking, are you thinking about it?

00:00:53.520 | Right.

00:00:53.760 | Yeah.

00:00:53.920 | You're going to, I had a feeling you're going to mention that.

00:00:55.640 | Yeah.

00:00:55.920 | So Justin and I have talked about this, but so, so, uh, Mr.

00:00:58.940 | Money Mustache, who, who, um, blurb digital minimalism.

00:01:02.560 | So I met him when I was working on that book.

00:01:03.840 | He's a personal finance guy, uh, made a bunch of money with

00:01:06.720 | his personal finance website.

00:01:07.920 | He lives in Longmont, Colorado, and he bought just a building

00:01:11.900 | downtown in Longmont and, uh, they renovated it.

00:01:15.640 | And it's basically like a coworking space, but it's like a coworking space,

00:01:19.160 | but it's also a gym, like an outdoor gym.

00:01:22.400 | And, uh, they have a lot of kegs there for these like evening talks.

00:01:27.640 | So they bring in people to talk about, I guess, business and stuff like this.

00:01:32.040 | And they have talks and they, and, uh, craft brewers in the neighborhood

00:01:35.200 | bring in kegs of beer, it's just created this whole physically located,

00:01:40.000 | physically cited community about, in this case, people who believe in his

00:01:44.840 | sort of whatever it says, financial, financial, uh, advice type philosophy.

00:01:50.240 | But like, should there be something like this for deep work?

00:01:55.480 | I think people pay a small fee to go to this thing, like $50 a month or

00:01:58.480 | something like that, like some small application, you gotta live in the area.

00:02:02.920 | Yeah.

00:02:03.640 | Um, yeah.

00:02:05.040 | But like coworking space, that's like deep work focused.

00:02:07.840 | Not a bad idea, actually.

00:02:09.960 | And if we had a building here in Tacoma park where you could come in and I don't

00:02:13.760 | know what would make it deep work focused.

00:02:15.200 | I think I would probably pulling from the Unimodium machine, there'd be

00:02:18.480 | the common space and then pods.

00:02:20.720 | Like you go into these pods to do deep work.

00:02:23.160 | It's not even like, oh, here's my office.

00:02:24.400 | No, you're you're that stuff can be out in the common space.

00:02:26.480 | You go into these pods to do deep work.

00:02:28.000 | And then there's like kind of a more social space.

00:02:29.760 | And then like another space is just for, I don't know.

00:02:31.920 | I don't know exactly how it would work, but, uh, that would be cool.

00:02:35.680 | That'd be cool.

00:02:36.560 | I could something you could see happening more commonly across the country.

00:02:39.640 | So, so Alex, I'm just using this as a chance to brainstorm, but I think.

00:02:42.440 | You know, there's like a deep work meets.

00:02:45.760 | We work play here.

00:02:47.120 | That could be cool at a smaller scale, Jesse, like, should we do

00:02:51.240 | an event you think at some point?

00:02:53.120 | You had mentioned this early on in your podcast and yeah, I got lazy.

00:02:57.320 | I was like, oh, I'll definitely go to that.

00:02:59.480 | This is before I even, you know, started working here, but then, so I was

00:03:04.560 | definitely going to go whenever you announced it.

00:03:06.280 | Yeah.

00:03:06.880 | Like that could be fun.

00:03:07.600 | I mean, it seems like a pain.

00:03:08.600 | That's why I didn't do it because I had no time, but if we had

00:03:12.000 | some help, it could be interesting.

00:03:13.720 | We have, I don't know where we would do it.

00:03:16.040 | If we would do it here in Tacoma park or do it somewhere where we had more room.

00:03:18.760 | I just have a lot of people in the DC area who are into this stuff.

00:03:21.440 | Like let's all get together and just like go down near a Nats game.

00:03:23.600 | Go down near a Nats game.

00:03:25.200 | Yeah.

00:03:25.600 | Yeah.

00:03:27.560 | Do it in the dugout.

00:03:28.560 | It'd be awesome.

00:03:30.160 | But yeah, we could do it down there.

00:03:31.440 | We could do it here at the restaurant that the Deep Work HQ is over.

00:03:36.120 | I mean, I don't know how much space we have here.

00:03:37.520 | I don't even know how many people would come.

00:03:39.080 | That's probably a lot.

00:03:40.680 | My only, I'm trying to think my only benchmarks.

00:03:45.760 | I've done some, some book signings here in DC that were pretty popular.

00:03:50.000 | I did one for digital minimalism at Politics and Prose and we definitely

00:03:54.360 | standy roomed only that place.

00:03:56.640 | And then when Scott Young was here, we did a joint one down on eight street

00:04:00.600 | at a bookstore down there and we definitely, you know, standy room only

00:04:04.800 | that place, so I don't know, we might get a, we might get a good crowd.

00:04:07.320 | It's kind of hard to tell.

00:04:08.880 | Um, I let's think about that.

00:04:11.720 | Yeah.

00:04:12.920 | Cause I haven't seen people.

00:04:13.560 | I mean, I see people now I do speak in events again and stuff like that.

00:04:15.880 | So I do see people, but that might be kind of cool.

00:04:17.360 | We get together like a lot of deep life, deep work, deep questions, type people.

00:04:21.040 | We all get together and just meet people can meet each other.

00:04:23.920 | Like, Hey, here's some other people that, you know, people, people, people,

00:04:28.200 | people, yeah, deep people with some people, people, the problem is I'm like

00:04:31.240 | an introverted curmudgeon who is a myth and throw up and say, I don't want to,

00:04:34.280 | I don't want to bother like talking to people.

00:04:35.920 | Sometimes I'm in that mood.

00:04:36.880 | And then other times, like I want to meet all my listeners and readers, and it

00:04:39.600 | just depends on like my mood for the day.

00:04:41.160 | Oh, well.

00:04:43.560 | So Alex, we're working on it.

00:04:44.560 | All right.

00:04:45.400 | That's the, that's the long and the short of it.

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