The best way to find fascinating people is to bury curiosity traps in your work
Honeypots lure bad actors; flipped around, they become curiosity traps that attract the good ones. A blog is a long, complex search query for people who share your interests, and each post is a hook for a different conversation. Easter eggs like Wait But Why's turtle chain, hidden footnotes, and puzzles buried in source code reward the most attentive readers. But the strongest traps aren't manufactured — they emerge naturally when you write from concrete experience and publish a lot.
We notice when other people care about the things we care about. And when we notice that someone else cares about very similar things, it feels like meeting a friend we haven't met yet.
- bobbiechen
And, it's on us to engage with the curiosity doorknob that others have laid out!
The first time I emailed someone on the internet about something they made that I liked, I was rather hesitant about bothering them.
The first time someone emailed me for the same reason, it made my day!
- ungreased0675
I love this description of the search to find one’s people.
But to keep it 100 with you all, nobody has touched my doorknob in a while. How might I improve the odds of finding my people?
- gopalv
When I heard the term "trap", I immediately thought of XKCD's Nerd Sniping[1]
These are more like a beacon or a "dog whistle" (though that word has taken on a new meaning).
Attracting like minded people is best done by ignoring your self critic and putting your self out there - a curated interesting personality is not something you can produce by trying hard.
[1] - https://xkcd.com/356/
[2] - https://xkcd.com/214/