As Paul Graham wrote in his essay "Why nerds are unpopular", it is hard for us tech oriented people to build a great social life. Because our minds constantly revolve around tech and science.
Has anyone here ever made good progress in connecting with other people?
If so, which approaches or resources were helpful to you?
This stereotype needs to die. For some reason, tech people have a superiority complex about their intelligence and inferiority complex about their social intelligence (neither of which is true from what I have observed). Tech people are normal people.