Calling all Central Texas Interintellects! Join host Alaka Halder to kick off the summer with an IRL meetup at Easy Tiger East. We'll catch up with all the friends we've made during a year of Zoom-only salons, trade Texas stories and recommendations, and discuss our visions and plans for the Interintellect locally and online. What…
Join hosts Jonathan Hillis and Alaka Halder for a special hybrid (IRL and online) salon on how to create cities that foster innovation, collaboration, and community. We will gather at Creator Cabins, an experiment in decentralized cities near Austin, TX. “Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In…
In this SuperSalon, writer Luke Burgis joins Interintellect hosts Bronwyn Williams and Alaka Halder to discuss mimesis, markets, manias, and why we tend to want what she’s having. “The truth…
As summer edges into fall, join host Alaka Halder for a fun (and shaded!) September picnic at Barton Springs (Zilker Park). We'll catch up with friends old and new, share stories from the summer, and make plans for the fall. Bring snacks, sun protection, and something to sit on. This event is family and dog-friendly.…
What if you’re an Interintellect, but you just don’t know it yet…? Every day, we come together from across the world to talk about philosophy and science, art and technology, finance and history, religion and music: all the thoughts and emotions we experience as humans, without judgment or certificates. Sometimes we play games, share music,…
At this informal in-person Salon in Austin, Texas, Étienne Fortier-Dubois (currently in the area thanks to Creator Cabins) and Alaka Halder invite you to hang out — and, to the extent that a having a…
Join Alaka Halder and fellow hosts for a warm, casual, audio-only chat! Grab a drink, get cozy, and come hang out in the Host Lounge voice channel on Discord. How are you doing? What projects are you working on? Would you like feedback or a collaborator? Do you have any burning questions about planning, promoting,…
Deirdre McCloskey - distinguished economist, historian and public intellectual - joins Alaka Halder, our community and friends for a very special SuperSalon on the history of human progress and the…
In this SuperSalon, scientist and futurist writer J. Storrs Hall, Ph.D. joins Interintellect hosts Alaka Halder and Wes Chow to discuss the Stripe Press edition of Where Is My Flying…
Join Alaka Halder and Wes Chow for a special Interintellect book club discussion to celebrate the Stripe Press reprint of Pieces of the Action by Vannevar Bush. Instrumental to the development of radar, the proximity fuze, modern computer analysis, the mass production of penicillin, and sparking the Manhattan Project—Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974) truly had…
Popular financial educator Kyla Scanlon and Cabin DAO founder Jon Hillis join hosts Alaka Halder and Wes Chow for this Web3 and Society series kick-off episode on the future of building and governing societies with web3. With this new Interintellect series, we hope to make web3 accessible to all and create a forum for discussing…
Alex Tabarrok, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, joins hosts Alaka Halder and Wes Chow to discuss cryptoeconomics – the combination of cryptography and economics – which provides a lens into how web3 is opening up fundamentally new ways of trading, cooperating, and communicating This will be an exciting, accessible conversation on the foundations…
