Seriously, if you don't have time to gain knowledge, you're probably wasting your time to begin with. Sounds like a fantastic idea to me, just get the prototype off the ground ASAP.
Sorry, I should've been more explicit. I'm mostly concerned about synchronization in terms of getting us all to read a book within the same time frame.
Given that there are so many, it seems like what will probably happen is that some will finish on time, and others will trickle in over the week. Keep the discussion open ^_^
1. High-level programming, probably functional-related.
2. Business/startup
3. Some quality-of-life stuff.
Instead of institutionalizing the topics, we can just start with one good one, and then use suggestions/voting to make up a queue.
My bigger concern is timing. We're all pretty busy.