At her debut Interintellect salon/workshop, Pamela J. Hobart (philosopher a.k.a. "The Life Coach for Smart People") will help attendees figure out when they can - and should! - try something before quitting a mediocre job, vs. when they should proceed directly to the exit. Finding yourself in a job that's too bad to tolerate as-is,…
In her debut Interintellect Workshop Salon, Julia Racsko will go beyond criticising the attention economy and set out to create an alternative by exploring our understanding of attention through drawing. All of our lives: our perceptions, memories, emotions are mediated through our attentional capacities, yet it is often discussed in terms of productivity or time…
Interintellect Alaka Halder hosts a summer meet-up at Princeton University (Central New Jersey), her alma mater. We'll walk through the lovely Prospect Garden, try to spot gargoyles perched on historic campus buildings, enjoy outdoor sculptures, and maybe stop for snacks and coffee on Nassau Street. Check your email and the New York channel on Discord…
Educator Raffi Grinberg facilitates a discussion on practical lessons about how to live a fulfilling life from W. Somerset Maugham's masterpiece, Of Human Bondage. This literary masterpiece about growing into…
The peaceful Interintellect village has been safe from werewolf attacks for a while, but during their retreat the werewolves have planned their next move. Nobody expected them, creatures who thrive…
What if you're an Interintellect, but you just don't know it yet...? Everybody thinks their life is weird. Most of us are right. Each of us holds our own brand of weird thing that makes us special, and with it, often comes its own brand of loneliness. Or so we thought. This past year, through…
In this Interintellect salon, Taylor Pullinger will host a conversation with Erik Hoel, inspired his recently published novel The Revelations. " Somewhere, lost in that tower of Babel, that library of Borges, was the theory of consciousness. The one and only correct theory an infinitesimal needle in an infinite haystack. To see a glimpse… It would fit…
Debut Interintellect host Reddy2go leads a special 'playshop' salon. If play is the opposite of work, is playshop the opposite of workshop? Join us to discover the answer to such inanely profound inquiries into the mysteries of the universe, as we know it. We’re going to travel back in time to recover our lost inner…
In his latest Interintellect Salon, Visakan Veerasamy will discuss bullsh*t. Literally. Life would be relatively simple if we only had to deal with truths and falsehoods. But in reality, effectively everything is incorrect to some degree of error – and worse, lots of people are indifferent to the truthfulness of a thing. Lots of people are…
In this salon Interintellects Kushaan Shah and Amir H. Hajizamani host a discussion about the cultural merits of social media platform Tik Tok TikTok has taken the world by storm. With more than 600 million users, TikTok has ignited a creative revolution during the pandemic and introduced new trends in fashion, commerce, health and so much more. What was once…
Interintellects Aaron Lewis and Josh Morin host an IRL meet-up in Washington DC Bring a blanket and a snack and gather with your fellow D.C. interintellects in a new alley park behind 1931 13th Street NW. Let's enjoy some quality outdoors time together after a long year of Zoom windows. The park was an abandoned…
“How would Kurt Vonnegut describe what I’m going through?” is one question anyone could ask in times of trouble and peril, knowing the result would be at once honest, compassionate, hilarious, and optimistic. This salon, hosted by Eyal Shay, will be a place for participants to become familiar with a real-life hero and reflect on…
