August Break
Taking a break through August/early September. Billing will be paused.
I’m taking a break starting today, at least through all of August, and likely part of November too. For paying subscribers, billing will be paused until I hit the resume button.
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Book Club Status
The book club will continue through the break. Book discussions happen in the #psychohistory channel of the Protocol Institute discord. There are also broader discussions on the world machines project, and regular calls every other Thursday, where we discuss the theory and implementation of our psychohistorical grand designs inspired by the book club. You can, of course, just stick to book-club activities.
You can find an invite code and links to individual chat threads in the on the book club page.
July was Side Quest month. I tried to read 3 books in parallel. I am 1/3 done with: Rana Dasgupta’s After Nations, Christopher Clark’s Revolutionary Spring, and David Wootton’s The Invention of Science. So I suppose I can claim to have read 1 book.
The August pick is Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett.