Join Jon Evans, founding director of the GitHub Archive Program, software engineer and sci-fi novelist, for an enlightening talk on the cultural history of AI doom. Over the last year, fears of an AI apocalypse have spread from Twitter's weirder fringes to The Financial Times, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal, publications not exactly known for doomsaying…
Since 2015, Patricia Hurducas, a writer and design researcher, has lived across Europe, exploring how our surroundings influence our quality of life. With deep, firsthand knowledge of the challenges and rewards…
Join Casper ter Kuile, author of The Power of Ritual and the co-founder of The Nearness and the Sacred Design Lab, for a conversation with Wayfare Magazine editor Zachary Davis about how religious and spiritual life is changing and how modern seekers can develop richer sources of meaning and wholeness. Organized religious communities have seen…
Join Oghenekevwe Emadago as he discusses Girlified, his groundbreaking project that tackles both pollution and barriers to education and employment for women and girls! The meeting will be hosted by Jasmine George, a women's health tech industry founder. Oghenekevwe is an environmental activist, entrepreneur, and female rights advocate. Over the past five years, he has worked…
Join the second episode (moved online) of a unique year-long offline salon series in Manhattan, featuring the brilliant writer and multifaceted creator Kyla Scanlon! Come and discuss her upcoming book, In This Economy? and a variety of related topics. Kyla has written for the New York Times, New York Magazine and Bloomberg Opinion. In her substack, she provides a fun, accessible and educative…
Love playing with words but feeling stuck? Boost your creativity at AI writing workshops with an award-winning video game writer Charlene Putney! Do you love to play with words? Do you sometimes feel creatively blocked? Do you need some new techniques and exercises to loosen up your mind and your pen? Yes? Then this session is…
Navigating the early days of adulthood as a founder, creative, hacker or dropout can be challenging. Let’s talk about it and share our insights! In this weekly event, Zack and Zelda open a space for makers to share what they’re working on, receive support and make new friends. Our ancestors gathered around a fire to…
An “Aspiring Writer,” Trisha, has grappled with the whole spectrum of writing challenges, from cold starts to self-doubt and maintaining consistency. One of her most trusted tools in addressing those is “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron. Join her 12-week Writing Support Group to unblock your creativity and unlock your full potential as a writer!…
If you’re feeling a constant level of stress, join the “Tools for Stress Resilience” series. It is hosted by Interintellect host Mariya Hoffman, a somatic mindfulness instructor with a specialty in Focusing and Polyvagal Theory. We all get knocked down by life at some point. A serious health issue might impact us or someone we love. Financial setbacks, work-related…
A headache that’s always been there, warmth in your chest when thinking of a friend, a clench in your jaw when remembering a deadline, or even an unexpected numbness - all of these can be signals from your body. Once you learn to read them, the sense of a body ‘speaking’ can become quite literal.…
Navigating the early days of adulthood as a founder, creative, hacker or dropout can be challenging. Let’s talk about it and share our insights! In this weekly event, Zack and Zelda open a space for makers to share what they’re working on, receive support and make new friends. Our ancestors gathered around a fire to…
Henry Oliver is a literature blogger at The Common Reader. This salon will guide through some of the great English language poems and show you how to understand their nuances and niceties. The second session is about sonnets, focusing on influence. We will compare several sonnets to see how their structure and conventions allow writers from different…
