I just picked up _Learning Go: An Idiomatic Approach to Real-World Programming_, 2nd ed, based on its positive reviews. I'd like to read it and create a small project (for example, a simple backend for a personal website).
Any other suggestions for a good Go project?
If it interests you, you will want to work on it and the initial (extremely frustrating) steps will be more joyful and fun. You will still get frustrated and likely be embarrassed by the project within six months, but that only means two things:
1.) You kept going (which is most important).
2.) You got much better (which is great news).
Otherwise, be gentle on yourself.