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…
With the rise of social media and digital communication, many of us have grown accustomed to living our lives through screens. Social media has greatly expanded our options for connectivity, our number of social contacts, and the time we spend digitally connected. Still, loneliness has risen sharply among every age group around the world. The…
How do you find and attract great talent? No matter your discipline or industry, everyone relies on working with exceptional people to achieve greatness. But how do you do it? Interviewing is notoriously hard to do reliably, and it's very difficult to get in front of right people in the first place. In this second…
Join Nicky Buttigieg for an afternoon of laughter and wit as we play the beloved fill-in-the-blank party game—Cards Against Humanity. Each round, one player asks a question from a black…
Starting out at the Miradouro and finishing our walk in Graça! We will end at Vino Vero for a glass of wine and cool down 💬 🍷 there’s a few…
This Salon is for aesthetes, dreamers, and visionaries; for those who like to ask big questions and who are curious to dive deeper. We will talk about aesthetics (specifically what beauty is, and pathways of knowing it), cosmology (including chaos theory), quantum mechanics, and consciousness - the nature of mind itself. These inter-related topics will…
A friend recently said "what AI can't replace is the Personal Essay." I — Crystal — think this is true. But what can it replace then? Part discussion, part interesting exercise, Crystal will run a salon to see if ChatGPT can replace her as a host, and as a writer. She will use ChatGPT to…
Join Elaine Wang to learn about her writing process, ongoing projects, and why writing in various contexts can be so different. A members-only fireside chat, moderated by Nicky Buttigieg. "Any…
Western concepts of Self tend to focus on the ego in defining one's persona and on the careful construction of self-identity. Eastern concepts of self, on the other hand, tend to emphasize the individual ego as an illusion and underscore the importance of fulfilling one's duty to society. How does this cultural difference shape our…
In this salon, Podcast Librarian and Writer Norman Chella explores the concept of writing with purpose: from writing in your journal, to letters to a cherished one, readers on a…
Join Lukas Rosenstock for a casual dinner with the Berlin Interintellect community. Let's meet over dinner on a Friday night, talk about whatever comes to our minds and enjoy seeing…
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” (Anaïs Nin) Join Interintellect fellow Vidhika Bansal for the first in a series of salons about adult friendship. What are the ingredients of friendship? How can…
