Hello, and welcome. We're going to be starting reading Disabling Intelligences by Rua Williams.

If you haven't bought the book, there's still time! We're doing our "soft start" this week where we're reading the preface and talk about what we're anticipating and hoping to learn more about from this book.

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routine stuff

If you've read these emails before, this is mostly the same stuff as last week (except for the discount code at the end). You can probably skip it if you're caught up.

format

As a reminder, there are numerous ways to keep up with the reading group:

• newsletter: I send updates on Mondays and Thursdays. In the Monday updates, I'll point to what to read; in the Thursday updates, I'll send some reflections and an icebreaker question to think about, and a reminder of where & how to join the video chat.
• video chats: Thursdays at 8pm ET we have a video chat on jitsi¹ where we talk about that week's readings. Sometimes we'll have a guest to talk about something related to what we read that week (like this week!).
• group chat: if you want to chat with people on signal, we have a pretty active group chat. You can join the signal group chat here.

schedule

Here's my tentative schedule for the book. I'm not including any additional readings in this table, but sometimes I'll tack on additional readings, especially if there's something timely, or a particularly good fit for that week's themes.

next book(s)

If you have suggestions for future books to read after Disabling Intelligences, please reach out, I'd love to hear them.

I'll pick a book in the next week or two, to give everyone time to acquire our next book.

last thoughts

Okay, that's it; see you Thursday to discuss the preface and to talk about what we're anticipating or hoping for from this book :)