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by henrik_w 746 days ago
I ran a book club for 7 years when I worked at TriOptima. We were maybe 40 developers in total at the company, and around 10 would join when we picked a new book. Towards the end of one book, some people would always drop off, but there were still enough people to make it useful.

One of the key (unexpexted) benefits of it was how it facilitated discussions about SW development practices between the different teams at the company. The content was usually good for giving us new ideas to try etc, but the usefullness of the discussions surprised me.

I've written more about it here:

https://henrikwarne.com/2016/11/08/developer-book-club/

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Thanks Henrik! Your blog post inspired me back then to start a book club at my company. It’s still running :-)
Great to hear!!