Howdy HN, while this is on page #1 I figure I should "strike while the iron is hot" and talk about the book club service that I recently launched on https://bookworm.club [1]. Long story short, instead of a traditional book club, where you get together and vote on what book to read next (or don't have any say in what the next book is) I wanted to build a service that would automagically match you with other people around the world who also happen to be reading the same book as you. I think it has the potential for some very interesting conversation and connection making! The way it works is you just tell us what you're reading (or let us track your currently reading list on Goodreads) and we match you up with anyone else also reading that and help you organize a meeting to discuss the book. Feedback welcome. And sorry if anything on the site breaks... I'm a technical writer by trade, not an engineer. Although I consider myself fairly technical this is probably one of the biggest technical projects I've created to date. An eye-opening experience! I have a little more information about the book club service at [3].
[1] As you can tell from the history of the site, I originally wrote the salt post in 2018 and then didn't do anything for a few years. I recently quit my job and took a 1-year sabbatical (which will probably end up being only 9 months) [2] and finally invested the time/energy to build the book club service I had been kicking around all this time. The blog is my place to discuss interesting ideas from whatever books I'm reading (such as this fascinating "resulting" idea [4] I learned from Thinking In Bets). If you would like to contribute to the blog I am open to that possibility (just dig around on the site or my personal site to figure out how to contact me).
[2]: https://kayce.basqu.es/sabbatical/prologue