Fiction, non-fiction, comics, cookbooks. If it has pages, it counts!
Share your progress. Drop a photo, a quote, or a hot take!
Discussion night! Trade or gift books. Pizza and beer!
Continuing Education helps us to stay sharp, curious, and to build communities of value.
(Even grown-ups deserve an excuse for pizza!)
★ THE IDEA: Kids get incentivized to learn. Adults get… nothing? Enrichment helps grown-ups stay sharp and build community.
★ THE MOTIVATION: Gen X (now adults) grew up with this offering. What started as: "Wouldn't it be fun if we hosted a one-off this summer?"
★ THE PROCESS: ... evolved into "Let's combine my certification in Educational Technology with a touch of AI..."
★ THE RESULT: An implementation of fully open-source, self-hostable and replicable, applied technology leveraging bleeding-edge AI which sits at the intersection of code, design, art, and education.
★ THE OUTCOME: Let's try it and find out! Start your own community project and let us know how it goes!
The Pizza Book Club is one implementation. The real idea is simpler: pick a goal, set a deadline, invite friends, celebrate. Swap in any activity and run it yourself.
BUILT WITH AI.
FINISHED BY HAND.
I let Claude take the design lead — layout, copy structure, color system — then customized it to fit the actual vision.
The graphics? HILARIOUSLY BAD. AI "draws" in SVG like a blindfolded intern with a geometry textbook. What you see here was replaced by real images.
AI is a force multiplier, not a replacement. Hire designers. Use your human touch. Make it real.