Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

This probably works best for something like history where the outlines of all the books match. Easier to say "Everyone read up to the Battle of Agincourt". Harder if everyone is learning a different facet every week.

Nope, artificially enforced homogeneity of knowledge is exactly what I'm trying to avoid

I first heard this from @juliagalef I think. I’ve been proposing it to coworkers and friends lately. The challenge seems to be similar to any book club challenge: people actually reading the book. Otherwise, it’s a fantastic idea and you could iterate it in countless ways.

Yup, I call it an “elephant book club,” after the tale of the blind men each touching a different part of the elephant

I think this will work as long as you have well defined questions, beyond just topics, that we are hoping to explore or answer. That way even with different books, we are shooting towards similar discussion points.

Will probably have to play with specificity/framing of the topic a bit, but I want to avoid anything that looks like a rubric. I would be very happy if we were all to cut totally different paths through the same forest and report back from varying points on the frontier