The way to do it is the way top engineers and scientists were recruited for the Manhattan Project. You go around to universities and talk to the professors, who will know who the highly motivated people are.
That would have worked back then but post-internet you should be looking for the people who had drive to achieve or build something without the academic structure there to force them to do it.
Universities are the place for low agency people in todays world.
The way to do it is the way top engineers and scientists were recruited for the Manhattan Project. You go around to universities and talk to the professors, who will know who the highly motivated people are.
That would have worked back then but post-internet you should be looking for the people who had drive to achieve or build something without the academic structure there to force them to do it.
Universities are the place for low agency people in todays world.
What I look for in engineers would be what I’d look for here: “I have no idea how to do that, let me get started.”
Yeah, there's thousands of university with that kind of people and budget. It's not that fun