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Glad to hear your philosophy reading group is going well! They're not easy to run, currently working on rescheduling mine (we went too deep into Deleuze and scared most of the members off).
No reading group is easy to run. People continually flake, don't do the reading, or try and take over the group to the kind of reading they want to do (despite a terrible track record of attendance). That said, it's been easier since I established a solid core group of 2-3 other people. I know they will do the readings and participate, so the other crap is just noise.
Yeah the solid core is really important - mine shrunk to two of us, hence trying to return to the "group" aspect. My guys in the group are all great but pretty hard to get onboard regularly. The really impossible thing is coordinating time zones, if it wasn't for that we'd have a great core, but as it is you're basically forced to choose between Californians and Euros.
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