Full Title: A Paper Reading Club at Work Databases and Distributed Systems Research
Category: #articles
Summary: I started a paper reading club this week at work, focused on databases
and distributed systems research. I posted in a general channel about
the premise and asked if anyone was interested. I clarified the
intended topic and that discussions would be asynchronous over email,
run fortnightly.
I was nervous to do this because I've been here about 2 months. In the
past I would have waited 6 months or a year to do this. But I don't
know. If you see something you think should exist, why wait?
The only other consideration was past experiences I've written
about
having difficulty getting engagement with clubs at work. But EDB has
near 1,000 employees. I figured there might at least be a couple
interested.
Furthermore I figured if I only got a few people this entire idea
would at least benefit myself, since I have been wanting to force
myself to build a paper reading habit. And if no one responded, it
would be only mildly embarassing and I'd not pursue it further.
But after a day, about 6 people showed interest. Which wa...
Note: Interesting idea to get colleagues engaging with long term learning around a work-related topic, and to benefit from multiple perspectives in a paper.
