In his latest Interintellect Salon, Visakan Veerasamy will lead an exploration of successful creatives and intellectuals throughout history. Let's focus particularly on people who achieved success during their lifetimes. How did intellectuals achieve positions of power, influence, status? What were the stepping stones along the way? In this Salon, let’s ask and explore: How do…
Progress writer Jason Crawford is writing a book about this world and how it was invented. In a series of salons, we will explore this content together, chapter by chapter, and get an inside look at the author’s creative process. Behind the world of our daily lives, there is a hidden world, one that keeps our world running.…
In this first salon of a three part series Henry Dashwood invites you to explore the similarities, differences, and relationships between rural and urban life. At length the townsman cries: "I wonder how You can live here, friend, on this hill's rough brow: Take my advice, and leave these ups and downs, This hill and dale, for humankind and…
In this salon, Sean Patrick Hughes discusses the notion of the American Century and its apparent conclusion in the post Cold War era. "Think of the late ’90s. Microsoft, Tomahawks, Titanic. Our economy, military, and culture were unchallenged, apparently unchallengeable. It hasn’t been like that before or since. Those years were, you could say, the high-water mark…
On April 21, Interintellect Victoria Egorenkova continues to explore the narrative of spaces at her salon dedicated to soundscapes. Everything from our internal monologues to the Martian soundscape - where do we connect with the so called reality and get a sense of the places we are in? We will be moving through time and…
In this Interintellect Workshop Salon on April 23rd, Peter will lead a discussion on the lighter side of art appreciation through some of our favorite pieces, and about how we can honor them with our imaginative remixes. “Art is one resource that can lead us back to a more accurate assessment of what is valuable…
“Making money is not a thing you do - it’s a skill you learn.” - Naval Ravikant In this Interintellect Salon Fellow Interintellect Sagar Devkate will take you on a self-exploratory journey where you'll learn to productize yourself. Productizing yourself is the process of transferring your time and effort into an asset that can be…
Interintellect Maybe Gray leads a workshop demonstrating the flexibility of the perceptions of social status through improvisational games. Social status is often framed as a negative thing - it's fixed, it creates barriers, it fosters exclusions, it hurts feelings, and it frustrates attempts to communicate ideas. It can be seen through such a stark, black…
Join London ii Hosts Flick Hardingham and Irene JK to discuss and examine Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, his life, and other views, exploring how his ideas might be relevant (or not) in today’s society and how they might serve us into the future. The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) made significant and lasting contributions to nearly…
Étienne Fortier-Dubois leads a series of thematic discussions on the work of science fiction author Ted Chiang. In Part 4, we discuss free will — is it a thing? How would the world change if free will were proven to exist, or not? Ted Chiang ranks among the best living authors of science fiction. Though he…
In this salon, Anwar AlKandari will dive into: storytelling and our constant urge to seek meaning, forms of narratives we use, and digital storytelling. “In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah." They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a story in front of an audience, often improvising. With each…
Interintellect hosts Bryan Kam and Isabela Granic join forces with a new salon that aims to take a deep dive into the history and potential of networked thought. “The great driver of scientific and technological innovation the increase in our ability to reach out and exchange ideas with other people, and to borrow other people’s…
