This is the first post of the 2015 repository rerun, which appears to be a good idea. The motivation for this rerun is that while the 12 repositories (go look them up, they're awesome!) exist and people might look them up, few new comments are posted there. In effect, there might be useful stuff that should go in those repositories, but is never posted due to low expected value and no feedback. With the rerun, attention is shifted to one topic per month. This might allow us to have a lively discussion on the topic at hand and gather new content for the repository.

Pondering the question of how to do efficient scholarly study, I figured a good way for me may be having something like a chavruta although not quite the same, a partner with which to study a field of science together, helping each other at answering questions which arise, searching for useful articles, in general, being more awesome together than each of us could be alone. Such a scholar partner should, for me, have a similar state of knowledge, i.e. the difference should be small enough to overcome it in a short amount of time, have similar interests as well as a similar amount of motivation, have enough spare time, live in a similar time zone and ideally be of similar age and nationality/language. In case others are searching for a scholar partner as well, I'm posting my personal information in the comments instead of here.

What is your opinion on this type of cooperation? What might be pitfalls in this approach? Did I forget any important criteria for a useful scholar partner?