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 3rd installment of host Linus Lu's 6-part series on classical music, we talk about the components of classical music. “Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one, and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous.” – Rabindranath Tagore…
In this salon series, Tanya Raj will lead deep-dive discussions on The Prophet by Khalil Gibran and his philosophy on living a life with purpose and meaning. Starting with the commencement of the wise man’s journey towards his homeland, we will delve into the beauty and fragility of love, what constitutes a sacred union, and…
Progress writer Jason Crawford is writing a book about the modern 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…
Michael S. Malone, the author of The Big Score, a book recently republished by Stripe Press joins Matjaz Leonardis and Daniel Thomason for an exciting conversation about the past, present and future…
In this salon, Alex Criddle will lead a discussion on what psychedelic experiences mean for individual spirituality, religions, and the mystical. A significant portion of psychedelic users cite their experience as being one of the top five most profound moments of their life, on par with their marriage or the birth of a child. What…
Celebrate the end of summer with new and old friends at a lovely evening picnic in Palo Alto, hosted by Ashley Zhang! Bring a blanket and your own dinner or snacks (downtown Palo Alto is a block away if you want to grab a meal to-go)! We can end the night with dessert and a…
Debut host Rachel Haywire leads a discussion on the future of art in collaboration with artificial intelligence. From Google's Deep Dream AI to Endel to GPT-3 to the @ai_curio account on Twitter; new forms of art, music, and literature are being developed through Artificial Intelligence. While some claim that this will put the creative class out of…
Psychologist and psychology professor Gena Gorlin invites you to a SuperSalon with our friend Emily Oster, economist and bestselling author, on how to make data-driven decisions even about our most intimate matters, whether doing so is always good, and how COVID has changed our attitude to facts of science. What can and can't science tell…
Join Alex Grin and the rest of the Boston crew for a casual picnic in the park by the Cambridge Public Library. Let's meet our Interintellect locals, welcome new movers to the city, catch up, and discuss plans for the fall. We'll start by exploring the theme of coming to a new city, leaving your…
In this salon, Nat Sharpe & Martha Sharpe will share their unschooling story and lead a discussion on education alternatives. “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education” –Albert Einstein Most people will admit they hated school and were even traumatized by it. But when they have children of their own, they repeat the…
Join ii hosts Irene JK and Matt Neapolitan to discuss Kant's philosophy around ethics and morality and its relevance in the modern technologically advanced society. Our philosopher of the month, Immanuel Kant, stands in the center of modern philosophy. Kant was one of the most influential philosophers of the Enlightenment era. His body of work…
