Experiment with ways of Doing Gentle With an Edge in your life, in this series hosted by Helena Roth, giver and receiver of Tankespjärn. What's the tone of my inner dialogue? Helena used to sport an inner dialogue that worked more like an inner dictator than anything else. But no more. How can that shift…
The common advice is to keep our feelings out of our work, to keep the personal separate from the professional; yet our emotions are an essential part of our human experience especially when we are going through a transition period in our lives. Join Mary Bajorek, an Interintellect fellow, in her fourth installment of the…
Come join David White for the next installment of a salon series dedicated to exploring the themes, ideas, and world-building of science fiction. We will be venturing into the world of The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. The novel depicts a world after the invention of a super intelligent computer who generates a technological singularity. We will explore the implications…
“Love is at first not anything that means merging, giving over, and uniting with another (for what would a union be of something unclarified and unfinished, still subordinate—?), it is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world, to become world for himself for another’s sake, it…
This salon is part of his InterIntellect series and broader project on not-knowing. Many situations of not-knowing are called “risk” (even when they aren’t). The cynical view is that this is to make them seem more knowable and manageable than they really are. The emerging kerfuffle around Silicon Valley Bank ("poor risk management!") is just one example of what…
For the inaugural salon of the Liberties X Interintellect series, Benjamin Moser, Pulitzer Prize Winning author of the biography Sontag and renowned translator of Clarice Lispector, joins Celeste Marcus to discuss…
In the eighth salon of the Ideas Shape the World - An Introduction to Social Movements series, hosted by Robert Nemeth, we will discuss anti-capitalism, its origins, and how it appears in today’s world. Anti-capitalism is a political ideology and movement encompassing a variety of attitudes and ideas opposing and criticizing capitalism. From the earliest…
Experiment with ways of Doing Gentle With an Edge in your life, in this series hosted by Helena Roth, giver and receiver of Tankespjärn. All feelings carry information, but what if I haven't been taught to understand the signal properly? Reading/Listening:* Chapter 4: Understand that feelings are neutral Chapter 6: The problem isn't the problem…
Join Vaughn Tan in building a better relationship with the not-knowing that surrounds us. We instinctively trust those who claim to tame not-knowing or protect us from it. The people and institutions who manage our money, govern our countries, and build our tools want and need our trust — so they often claim to have good methods for dealing…
Startupy founder Sari Azout and Backdrop founder Joey DeBruin join hosts Alaka Halder and Wes Chow for a conversation on building consumer products using web3 technology. Sari is an early-stage VC, design-thinker, and strategist who founded Startupy, a digital playground for thinkers and creators to curate, organize, and interconnect the most valuable tech, business, and…
Do you wish your head knew how to understand what your body was saying? Or are you perhaps skeptical that your body has anything to say at all? Join somatic-emotional healing coach James Mayfield in this series to learn and practice understanding the messages of your body. A headache that’s always been there, warmth in…
Experiment with ways of Doing Gentle With an Edge in your life, in this series hosted by Helena Roth, giver and receiver of Tankespjärn. Learning to play and experiment and have fun with myself as well as others is a great way to bring both more gentle and more edge into life. Let's share what…
