For a while User:fubarobfusco was running a Sequences reading group in the Mountain View meetup. He’d assign several posts to be read before the meetup, but encourage people to attend even if they didn’t read them. Then at the meetup he’d have some simple exercises or small-group discussion topics, like “list beliefs you have that exemplify belief in belief, belief as attire, belief as profession, belief as cheering, and floating beliefs”. I only attended one or two of these, so I don’t know how it turned out in the long term.
It went pretty well for a while. One difficulty was that without some proportion of people having read the material, discussions could fall a little flat. Sequences meetups were every other week; and attendance at Sequences meetups was often half that of the other meetups. That got a bit disheartening for me personally. If I’d had the benefit of this post at the time, I’d have prepared more in the way of presentations or summaries or the like.
For a while User:fubarobfusco was running a Sequences reading group in the Mountain View meetup. He’d assign several posts to be read before the meetup, but encourage people to attend even if they didn’t read them. Then at the meetup he’d have some simple exercises or small-group discussion topics, like “list beliefs you have that exemplify belief in belief, belief as attire, belief as profession, belief as cheering, and floating beliefs”. I only attended one or two of these, so I don’t know how it turned out in the long term.
It went pretty well for a while. One difficulty was that without some proportion of people having read the material, discussions could fall a little flat. Sequences meetups were every other week; and attendance at Sequences meetups was often half that of the other meetups. That got a bit disheartening for me personally. If I’d had the benefit of this post at the time, I’d have prepared more in the way of presentations or summaries or the like.
Thanks for the report.