Reading List Repository for the Weekly Research Group - incl for onboarding of new members

[baouroux]

Picking up from last week's Weekly Research Group call, and following up on the ideas on collecting a 'shared knowledge' reference base, herewith a call for suggestions on the ways to take Matt's earlier Hackathon activity of Reading Lists, into a core and ongoing action for the Weekly Research Group...

Copying Matt's post from the "Research Community Hackathon / Create-athon (first one) #466" thrread: https://github.com/orgs/life-itself/discussions/466#discussioncomment-5744276

Reading lists / learning resource curation

• A framework for organising learning resources for newcomers to a particular topic, i.e. books, papers, videos, podcasts, thinkers, etc. This could also be integrated with a knowledge map.
• Inspiration: user-generated reading lists / notion reading lists / roadmap.sh / healthygamer.gg

I take also a big inspiration from the way that @msantolini summarised the key texts on his journey over the years from his presentation to our weekly group.

I would personally prefer the Notion platform, since I use Notion quite extensively!

[rufuspollock]

@baouroux to clarify: is this thread about the platform for curating these lists or for initial sharing of actual lists.

On the latter just came across a note in my journal about a first few books I'd recommend to 6th formers (i'm giving a talk to them soon):

• Island by Huxley - the classic (e)utopian novel
• Finders by Jeffery Martin - simple, no-nonsense intro to waking up with a securlar-ish presentation
• Mind Illuminated by Culadasa - core meditation manual with good scientific context
• Santaroga Barrier by Herbert - the neglected masterpiece. Take away the pot-boiler "monster in the lake" and you have the core of an counter-cultural ontological masterpiece (the hero is called Dasein for Heidegger fans)

[baouroux]

The post was intended to start the process in choosing a platform.
But why not start sharing initial lists, as you have! We can then always copy these across to the platform.