Web3 leans on Albert Hirschman’s political framing of “exit”: the belief that ultimate freedom to port a person’s life data from one service to another leads to competitive platforms that maximize that person’s benefit. What if, instead, Web3 were to emphasize another of Hirschman’s concepts, “voice”? A pluralistic version of Web3 imagines a network of…
Join guest Eugene Wei and host Nathan Baschez as they discuss Eugene's seminal theory of social networking, Status as a Service, first published in 2019. Much like Clay Christensen's theory of disruption, as a management theory becomes more well known, it can change the behavior of managers. Three years in, it feels like many of… Continue reading *FREE SuperSalon* | Status as a Service: Revisited
Interintellect invites all ii community members and hosts to a casual Zoom hangout with eggnog, tea, cake, and wine — to celebrate this eventful, fun, tumultuous, adventurous year we're closing, and all the time we've spent together in friendship and conversation. Join us by yourself, or bring a plus one, and share your stories with…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about: Can you ever be happy with your own writing? — On routines, crises, and a crazy 2022. How do you deal with being dissatisfied with your work? Can you publish material that you're unhappy with? Do you have a choice? Is your discontent helping you…
Creators of Interintellect! Join Colin Gorrie for a networking and strategy session leading up to the epic Creator Discontent – Community Fireside Chat with Visa. This will be a time to make new connections in the ii community, share what we are currently creating and thinking about, discuss current projects (potential collaborations!), and our goals…
Interintellect founder Anna Gát hosts a laid-back fireside chat on building a personal library and cultivating the habit and pleasure of reading. As the cold months are rolling in, the…
In this SuperSalon, James Clear — bestselling author of Atomic Habits — will join writer and researcher Anne-Laure Le Cunff to discuss the power of small habits and big plans, lifelong learning, cultivating flexibility and adaptability, how to deal with uncertainty, and more. The start of the year is a liminal time to reevaluate our…
Lee Ngo (he/they) is a professional filmmaker and community architect, specializing in story structure in both. His series on polyamory draws from his own personal journey, both offering and seeking wisdom in the ubiquitous never-ending quest for love and self-acceptance. Are you ... poly-curious? You've likely noticed an increased interest in non-monogamous relationships, but there's…
Join Mike Haber for this workshop salon, where we can Just Draw The Thing! This salon is for you if you've ever found that words are not quite enough to explain to your boss, employees, friends, or kids what you mean. Visuals are just another way of getting ideas out of our heads. Combined with…
Let’s learn the best tricks for making the most out of using the chat platform Discord, where Interintellect's forum operates. Discord is a fun and useful tool for community life…
In her debut Interintellect salon, Jessie Mannisto of Third Factor Magazine invites you to explore what it means to be weird, what it means to be normal, and what all of that means for our relationships with others—not to mention with ourselves. Mannisto originally founded Third Factor as a space for people who felt like…
In this salon, machine-leaning-engineer-turned-massage-therapist Elena Polozova and somatic coach James Mayfield Smith will get very, very specific about why jobs that many of us grew up told would make us happy (such as tech jobs, high-paying corporate jobs with good benefits, etc.) often don't, and what we can do about it. “I have such a…
