The practical goal of Recurse is to make connections. Starting a business or publishing research are explicitly non-goals.

The paradox of networking events is nobody who attends "networking events" is worth networking with.

	▲	applfanboysbgon 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's weird to say that about a YCombinator-affiliated event on a YCombinator forum. I'm not especially fond of YC but there's pretty clearly potential to make valuable connections in this sphere.