There are tons of active subreddits about specific fiction books, but surprisingly few large subreddits about specific non-fiction books.
I wonder if this is bc you might discuss problems in e.g. Feynman Lectures in /r/physics, but fiction lacks cross-book “home."
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I'm intrigued! I've jokingly tried to create these points around Seeing Like A State here on Twitter (searching for it here yields interesting stuff; ~1-3 tweets a day out there)
To generalize more, I ask: what would the best online Schelling Point for a non-fiction book be?
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Riffing: if I wanted to deepen my understanding of a book, I might like to hold a seminar (perhaps Foo-style) in which attendees facilitate a variety of sessions inspired by the book’s claims / ideas.
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Totally! I've certainly seen this kind of thing in single-day conferences of academics giving various talks on a given (usually just-passed, or being honored) person's works.
There's something about sync vs. async here too.
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