By Scott Davies Interintellect Salons have rightly gained their reputation as one of the most open and accessible places to have intellectually stimulating conversations on the Internet, and much of…
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What’s the Purpose of Novels?
Fellow Interintellect Anwar AlKandari dives into the joys and mysteries of fiction This essay first appeared on Anwar’s blog. “The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of…
Thinking in Silence — Notes Written During an Interintellect ‘Silent Salon’
By Karan Chawla These notes were written during the Silent Salon hosted by Anna Gát on 27th Feb 2021. Like the lazy Saturday afternoon I wrote these on, they lack a clear structure. It’s mostly…
Reflections on an Interintellect Salon
Rika Sukenik on Matt Clifford’s “Lessons from the Middle Ages Part 2: Power and Territory” A few weeks ago, I attended an Interintellect Salon on Lessons from the Middle Ages. It was Part 2 of a…
Heartbreak: Why Does it Hurt So Much?
Interintellect Host Michelle Huang on her debut Salon with Brian Toh — and pain, healing, and identity First published on Michelle’s blog. “You never really know how it’s going to end. But when it does,…
Just 9%: Exploring Movement through Conversations
By fellow Interintellect Brian Toh — first published on his blog If you have never attended an Interintellect Salon, it is an absolutely lovely experience; conversations of such a diverse range of topics and ideas,…
Takes a Village…
Finding Playgrounds and Playmates First published on fellow Interintellect reddy2Go’s Substack What if I told you, that you couldn’t depend on any organization, corporation, institution, or government? In light of all that’s…
Creating Human Moments During Online Conversations
By Irene Karthik — first published on her blog A close friend confessed that she missed the human connection on the zoom calls. She longed to get back to the office…
Nothing Is Inherently Obvious
By Étienne Fortier-Dubois This essay first appeared on Étienne Fortier-Dubois’s personal blog. You’re sitting in a math class in university. The professor is writing a proof on the blackboard. You’re extremely…
The Objects of Power
Even more instructive than our mental models may be our mental mythologies By Daniel Golliher This story was first published on Daniel’s blog. Many are familiar with the idea of mental…
A Brief Introduction to Time in Physics
By Lorenzo Evans for the Interintellect — first published on his blog In preparation for the next Olympia Academy event via the Interintellect, entitled Running Out of Time: The Temporal Dimension, I thought it might be useful…
Laziness Is Less of a Thing Than You Think
By fellow Interintellect Dominique Alessi — originally published on her blog When I was in college, many of my peers were, well, normal college students. They studied, sure, but they also went…