“What is your greatest weakness?”: On Public and Private Flaws

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  Fellow Interintellect Linus Lu invites you to discuss the different ways we choose to present our weaknesses to ourselves and to the world. One of the most dreaded interview questions is "What is your greatest weakness?" You feel put into a double-bind: you don't want to totally evade the question and seem like you're…

Calling the Muse: Come to Me!

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Interintellect Anwar AlKandari will lead a discussion on inspiration – where do we find it? How can we get more inspired? What do our muses reveal about ourselves?  In a scene of “Anne with an E” TV show where Anne feels uninspired, together with her friend Cole they stand at the top of a mountain…

Lessons from the Middle Ages: Violence and War

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Matt Clifford returns to conclude his Lessons from the Middle Ages series with a realistic exploration of medieval violence, penalty and war.  After exploring religion and power, In our third salon in “Lessons from the Middle Ages” series, we turn our focus to violence and war - topics that are deeply intertwined with the themes of our first…

The Patterns That Connect: Systems Thinking and Networked Thought

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Fellow Interintellect Alex Yao explores the importance of systems thinking and networked thought for tackling complex problems. “Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses — especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” — Leonardo Da Vinci When we follow our curiosity of a subject…

Burnout & Corporate Stockholm Syndrome — Work Beliefs and our Relationship with Work

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Join experienced indie creator Paul Millerd and newly resigned, ex-big tech worker Orpheas Katsikis as they explore our relationship to and beliefs about work and how these lead to burnout, Corporate Stockholm Syndrome, and a seemingly good, but unfulfilled life… “I have a great office job, I’m getting paid well, I should be happy”. Not…

No Feeling is Final: Personal Narratives of Healing, March Edition

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Interintellects Catherine Woodiwiss and Amir Hajizamani invite you to an intimate exploration of healing after trauma. How do we make sense of trauma? How does a major life disruption change the trajectories of our lives? How do the stories we tell ourselves — and others — change and re-solidify as we heal? Following on a…

Down the Rabbit Hole: The Infinite Curiosity Atlas (II)

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Fellow InterIntellect Helena Ng invites you to take a Play Day and join forces with some friendly curiosity buddies for a communal nerding session. Last month at Camp Curiosity, we discussed the technique of deconstruction and applied it to ideal emotional states across cultures, which led to the emotional dissonance of tech, then a citizen…

ii Book Club Special – Donald Braben on His Book ‘Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization’

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After our popular book club reading Donald Braben's Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization, the author joins Anton Troynikov and Interintellects from around the world to discuss the future of research.   The subject of the first Interintellect Book Club, Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization, is an exhortation and roadmap for how to reform…

Silent Salon

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Silence is more of an idea. A notion. The silence around us may contain a lot, but the most interesting kind of silence is the one that lies within. A silence which each of us must create. About this Event If the early 21st century seemed hellbent on depriving us of silence, the current pandemic,…