Writing Your Own Story – A San Francisco Dinner Party

San Francisco San Francisco, CA

A lovely conversation in San Francisco for our local community and friends. Come and join our storytelling circle: What were some of the most surprising decisions you made about your life recently? How have they impacted your overall life? This event will be hosted in a private home, dinner will be provided. Spots limited. The…

Free

Finding Your Voice – Supersalon with Herbert Lui – Creative Doing (In Partnership with Holloway)

Online

Join writer and editorial director Herbert Lui, author of the new book Creative Doing with startup veteran Jason Shen for a conversation about developing your craft, getting past creative blocks, and growing your audience while staying true to your unique voice.  In partnership with Holloway. “Creativity doesn’t just take place inside our brains; it’s a…

$10.00

Genre-Focused Workshop #1: Funk

Online

In this episode of his music production workshop series, musician and sound engineer Zsolt Török invites you to explore and recreate the sound of classic funk bands such as Parliament and Earth, Wind & Fire. The genre-focused workshop salons differ from the previous episodes of this series, in that they build upon the fundamental skills…

Free

Host Chat: Your Next Salon Topic (hangout in the ii Café)

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Thought about hosting a salon sometime but you’re not sure yet what it should be about? Join Interintellect producer Maria Górska-Piszek for a brainstorming session and let’s find a topic that gets you excited to explore it further with the ii community. The best Salon topics start with something you care deeply about. Is there a question…

What Information Wants, Chapter 6: The Information Revolution

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Rhys Lindmark is writing a book about how information flows and how it’s changing on the internet. 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. This is the 7th salon for Rhys Lindmark’s series on What Information Wants. Join us…

$20.00

21st Century Monetary Policy | Part III: From Liftoff to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Online

Join Jared Davis—a software engineer in Cambridge, Massachusetts who enjoys studying mathematics and reads widely—for the third of a four-part discussion of 21st Century Monetary Policy. In this salon, we will discuss the first part of Ben Bernanke’s book, 21st Century Monetary Policy. Bernanke is an economist, historian, and Chairperson of the US Federal Reserve…

$20.00

Drunk SuperSalon — How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization, with author Edward Slingerland

Online

In this exciting online discussion, please join professor of philosophy and writer Edward Slingerland and Interintellect host Bryan Kam to discuss Edward’s book Drunk, a deep dive into the alcohol-soaked…

$15.00

How to Be Authentic

Online

In an age of self-exposure, what does it mean to be authentic? Join Skye C. Cleary, a philosopher whose third book is titled How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment (out August 2022). She teaches at Columbia University and the City College of New York. Her writing has appeared in The…

$30.00

Sci-Fi Odyssey: A Tour Through the Great Works of Speculative Fiction – Margaret Atwood

Online

Come join David White for the next installment of a salon series dedicated to exploring the themes, ideas, and world-building of science fiction. We will be exploring the world of Oryx and Crake and discussing the consequences of a bioengineering disaster, socioeconomic effects of widespread genetic engineering, and how the tension between humanities and technology grow as scientific…

$20.00

Chapter 16: The Evolution of Creativity – The Beginning of Infinity Reading Group (Members Only)

Join members of the “Gödel, Escher, Bach” book club in reading through David Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity.” Share the pleasure of wrestling with a challenging, thought-provoking book with the help of friendly peers’ additional eyes, hearts, minds, and experiences. Maybe you heard about it on Naval's podcast, or perhaps you follow the father of…

Free

The Great European Interintellect Friend Finding Self Discovering Mingle

Online

Fellow Interintellects Anna Grigoryan and Lukas Rosenstock invite to a salon of inter(intellect)mingling, of finding friends and rediscovering old ones in a series of one-on-one conversations! We will gather as a group and then enter into a series of breakout rooms, so that ideally you have the chance to personally meet every other participant. This…

$10.00