In this exciting upcoming SuperSalon, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, the internet's favourite "friendly ambitious nerd" Visakan Veeraasmy, and Interintellect founder Anna Gát discuss online communities, global bonding, web3 subcultures and…
In a new Interintellect Salon, Visakan Veerasamy will cohost with Malcolm Ocean a collective exploration of emotional flashbacks in the context of Malcolm’s dream mashups metaphor: Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation and their old emotional meanings. Like dreaming you're at school but it's also on a boat somehow.…
In his latest Interintellect Salon, Visakan Veerasamy leads a talk about tiredness, rest, and doing nothing. I'm tired. Are you tired? We're all tired. We live in tiresome times. We should probably rest. Is there time to rest? Let's talk about it! Let's talk about the psychology of it, and about the assumptions we have about…
In his latest Interintellect Salon, Visakan Veerasamy leads a talk about being and becoming an independent, self-directed, "feral" free agent. Has the pandemic got you rethinking your relationship with employment? Are you thinking of striking it out on your own, perhaps to start your own business? Or maybe you want to be an independent creative, or…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy leads a discussion on how to host great salons. Friends, new and old, welcome to Interintellect! What makes a good ii salon? How do you choose a good topic? How do you make it compelling, interesting, exciting? And once you've got people interested, how do you make sure that…
In this SuperSalon, writer Akash Kapur, author of Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville, will join writers and Interintellect hosts Tanya Raj and Visakan Veerasamy to explore the pull of a perfect utopia: the pleasures and the losses, and the finding of eventual transcendence and acceptance, even in…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about starting new things. We're approaching the end of 2021, which means soon it'll be 2022. It's been a rough couple of years for many. Nevertheless, life has to go on! And part of that means we can't stay in stasis forever. We have to try…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about marketing. Hi, Visa here! In a previous life I used to be a professional marketer at a software company, and before that I used to do promotions for music events, and from time to time I still do marketing consulting to pay the bills. Is…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy leads a discussion on how to host great salons. Friends, new and old, welcome to Interintellect! What makes a good ii salon? How do you choose a good topic? How do you make it compelling, interesting, exciting? And once you’ve got people interested, how do you make sure that it goes…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about gratitude. It's Thanksgiving season! Let's just kick back, relax and chat about good times, good friends, good vibes. (This is the third of a monthly hangout series for the Interintellect community.) Recommended reading: None! Just come and share your own stories and experiences! – Cover…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about being prolific. Whatcha working on? What's your plan? Let's talk about our ambitions and goals and long-term dreams and hopes, and what we intend to do to make them happen! (This is the 4th session in a monthly hangout series for the Interintellect community.) Recommended…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy leads an experimental mini-salon made up of your micro-salon ideas. Friends, new and old, welcome to Interintellect! We've now hosted a couple of events where we discuss, broadly speaking, what makes a good ii salon. Let's try something slightly different: bring us your salon ideas, and let's try them out in…
