Reading, Together

Good books are almost fractally deep: you find whole worlds wherever you look, and no matter how far in you zoom. Breaking a book into multiple meetings makes the most of this fact. It gives you space to dwell — on a page, even on a single word — without feeling like you’re wasting anyone’s time. No: that’s what a book club is for, not to sum up what you’ve read but to live inside it.

Idea: online course parties

Groups of people come together in a dedicated space (after covid) and all watch the videos from a course together, and do the exercises and implementation in pairs or small working groups

I bet most course creators would offer a bulk discount rate
— Tiago Forte (@fortelabs) June 6, 2020

How a deep reading club works:

Someone chooses a book & invites a group to read it. You read together, aloud, taking the time it takes to read & absorb the text. You annotate the text together, then your annotations become the catalysts for whatever conversation comes next.
— Ḟreyjạ (@utotranslucence) July 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/marginaliaclub?s=09

Co audiobook listening? Podcasts? But how to handle forking?

People carried Debt: The First 5000 Years in the streets during Occupy Wall Street and read it together page by page in seminars David organized.

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/111/347219/for-david-with-love/

WHOA, that‘s even more intense! Can you share a screenshot?

I tried doing a paragraph-on-index card analysis of Bruno Latour’s Visualization & Cognition essay (via @maxkriegers) but I faltered halfway through it (partly because text extraction from PDFs is such a pain!) pic.twitter.com/zF5nfXG4cB
— Eli Parra :ocean: (@elzr) April 21, 2020

Explode an essay into a surface - Exploding PDFs

Moodboarding

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theophrast.chromecastapps.castpdfreader

I got emails from couples, saying that reading my blog together once a week was their romantic bonding activity.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/still-alive

This is amazing — open syllabus designed around Halt and Catch Fire + early tech industry / internet history

Idea = "watching club" + discussion group on tech origins, impacts, ethics, possibilities (maybe on @hyperlink_a ?!)

Includes readings, prompts…even RFCs to read! https://t.co/K8m3qa2oZf
— Brendan Schlagel (@schlagetown) January 22, 2021

Lucy Keer’s “speedruns” of topics

I like this idea of a research speedruns

Party format:
5min everyone brainstorms topics of interest into a chat
1hr each person speedruns on one
1hr mini presentation from each person https://t.co/TFcsyXIBQd
— Tyler Alterman (building one home in Berlin) (@TylerAlterman) March 16, 2021

Reminds me of Kay’s story in Early History of Smalltalk about unrolling the Simula program listing down the hall and crawling over it with a second person. If that’s what we needed to understand systems of 1960s complexity, what hope do we have using small text windows today? https://t.co/Wbkz4IJtmu
— Benjamin Schroeder (@bvschroeder) September 16, 2021

https://www.facebook.com/1565310227/posts/10219352053623149/?d=n

https://medium.dianakimball.com/go-on-a-readtreat-a90613bb1675

https://mwichary.medium.com/party-where-we-read-things-c503c3ec624c

Stian's Notes on Ad-Hoc Book Clubs

Beyond the Desk

https://twitter.com/geoffreylitt/status/1509654002530717696?s=20&t=_vBMh8qOG7U5MeLmr9yG9w

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