LAWS (Learning About Worlds & Systems) Book Club

**This group is new and currently waking up. If the description below interests you don’t let the lack of activity keep you out! I am currently working on printing some flyers so hopefully we can get something rolling by late Spring 26’)

LAWS (Learning About Worlds & Systems) is an Omaha‑based book club that reads science fiction and tech‑adjacent non‑fiction to explore how technologies, institutions, and ideas reshape societies. We focus on systems, incentives, and ethics rather than partisan debates.

What will we read?

Mainly non-fiction, classical Sci-Fi (Isaac Asimov, Douglas Adams, Frank Herbert), but open to non-fiction and other genres as long as the reading is accessible, and there is a specific Systems Theory angle behind them that can be discussed.

When\Where will we meet?

TBD. In Person most likely, but open to virtual meetings based on weather or other circumstances.

Basic Rules:

- Follow basic “don’t be an A-hole” principles, the Golden Rule, and the Three Laws of Robotics when applicable (non-Asenion robots need not apply).

- Political discourse innundates the world. Let’s not make this space a place to complain about the current chief or the previous one. Any discussions that may inevitably touch on politics or hot button issues should be addressed cordially, objectively, and from a Systems angle. Principle: We will not attempt to solve the problems in the world, but we can discuss how they work as far as our very limited intellect can dilucidate.

- Participate! I will do my best to find interesting Ice-Breakers and Mind-Openers, but the discussion is just as good as we make it. 

- The point of this group is to surround each other with smarter people. We are all entering the space with a spirit of humility and curiosity. Principle: You are the smartest person in the room when speaking, and the dumbest when listening. Trust in your own thoughts and voice them unapollogetically; trust other people’s thoughts and let them exist unapollogetically.

- It should be read between the lines in previous rules, but in case it needs to be said: LAWS is an inclusive environment welcoming of all people regardless of background or ideology. We discuss books, not politics, and grant each other the same grace we would like granted upon ourselves.