How Do You Engage With the Community?

How do you get into this field? There are two main paths right now, the academic path, and there's the corporate path. How should we engage with the community? Well, stubs her i would say, is start digging into literature. I think a lotof people haven't done this either. They don't realize it's there, or they're intimidated by it. And so as a, let's say, as a product developer, designer or engineer, i knew how to google for stuff. I read medium pieces. I follow other folks in my field on twitter. But the academic world of things was sort of dark. So maybe that comes to all right, you find