@hpy and I enjoyed seeing some of you at last year’s book club meetings, and we would like to bring them back again for 2023! We’ve been hosting these informal get-togethers every 2-3 months and are looking to host the next one sometime in late March. If you are interested in joining, fill out this poll by January 16th to find a time to meet!
Reading List
You can access the reading list here - feel free to add your contributions to it!
You can fill out the following poll, based on our reading list , to share which books you would like to read in the future:
The Alchemist
Makers (Cory Doctorow)
The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters, and other Informal Entrepreneurs (Alexa Clay & Kyra Maya Phillips)
Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts (1979, Bruno Latour)
Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy 1 by Nathan Schneider
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman
Sapiens: A brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
oh dear, same here, i’m really interested in this even though i’m not sure i’ll have the time to read, would it be ok to participate in the discussion if we skim through (unless it’s Latour or a couple of other ones I’ve already read in an other life!)
Thank you for following up on this! I will admit, things got a little busy for @hpy and I these past few weeks and we didn’t have the time to host a meeting in March. However, we could try to find a new time to meet in mid-June!
To those interested in joining, please fill out this poll by the end of this week and we can find a time that works
Thanks for this, I’ve filled in the form, however I’m wondering if either a mistake has been made or all of you are based in Oceania, as my 5pm-11pm (the app asks me to input my timezone, so I assume the schedule is in my timezone) is bracketed off and I can’t select it. I’ve selected 11pm-midnight just because I want to get this off the ground, as it’s possible that I may have a job by June. It’d be really great if the 5pm-11pm (i assume it’s in my timezone, which is UTC+3) were open for selection, but I guess there must be a reason that it isn’t.
Hi @haris. I think it’s because @briannaljohns is the one who created the poll, and what you see already accounts for their availability, i.e. @briannaljohns is not available 17:00-23:00 UTC+3.
Apologies for the confusing poll, scheduling meetings from my timezone (UTC +10) can be quite a headache sometimes!
Based on the results of the meeting poll, I went ahead and added a book club meeting for 8 pm UTC on June 14 to the GOSH calendar. We will discuss The End of Everything by Katie Mack - but feel free to join even if you don’t have time to read it all!
I was just wondering, any chance of a freely available online copy of the book? Or otherwise there’s a couple of youtube links that I’ve seen that i could follow (though I think in order to be properly prepared for the level of our discussion i’d probably have to read the whole book).
Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a freely available copy online. I understand this can be limiting to participation, so I am more than happy to discuss any other books you’ve been reading lately, or even some recent articles that have been of interest!
