We have been doing a Zoom distributed systems paper reading group for 5 years and have covered around 190 papers. This semester, we should reach the milestone of 200 papers. Over the years, my commitment to the group has varied — at some point, I was writing paper reviews, and more recently, I’ve had less time to do that. However, I will try to recommit to these reviews in some short form… And so, our 191st paper was “Occam’s Razor for Distributed Protocols” from SoCC’24.