Join Alaka Halder and Wes Chow for a special Interintellect book club discussion to celebrate the Stripe Press reprint of Pieces of the Action by Vannevar Bush. Instrumental to the development of radar, the proximity fuze, modern computer analysis, the mass production of penicillin, and sparking the Manhattan Project—Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974) truly had…
In this series—Baby Steps to Beowulf: Old English for Beginners—linguist Colin Gorrie will teach you how to read Old English texts like Beowulf with the aid of a dictionary. Like every language, English has a past. More than many languages, English has changed dramatically over the years: the language as spoken just a thousand years ago would…
Fellow Interintellects Katrina Dela Cruz and Brian Ahuja invite you once again to a salon of inter(intellect)mingling, of finding friends and rediscovering old ones, in group convos and 1:1s, just the way you like it… The Great Interintellect Mingle is back again! Come meet new friends (and maybe some old friends as well) in the main room as well…
Join Pavel Shibayev for an IRL lunchtime picnic meetup in San Francisco Precise location TBD! We will share the location to all RSVPs via email and provide updates in the Bay Area channel in our Discord. Agenda: we will gather primarily to converse about each other’s interests and passions. As possible proposed icebreakers, you are…
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…
Join Pascal Kolbe (Meaning Researcher) and Mark Ovland (former monk and Buddhist teacher) for an interactive 2-hour salon in which we’ll explore what it might look like to "live life well." If you’re anything like us, it’ll be important to you that your life here on Earth feels fulfilling and meaningful. But that doesn’t always…
You know the saying "never judge a book by its cover?" What would happen if we ignored that advice? Join librarian Jay L. Colbert in a discussion about our aesthetic and sensual relationships with information. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only…
How do you build a life of passion, fulfillment, and self-expression at the highest levels? Join hosts Tal Tsfany and Amanda Maxham in this salon to imagine the happiest man alive—and how to become such a person. Tal is an tech entrepreneur, investor, author and now serves as the President & CEO of the Ayn…
Join Interintellect producer Maria Górska-Piszek for another weekly hangout in the ii Café. This time we'll talk about what you can expect during the salon itself - or any other questions you have on your mind. What can I expect during my salon? What do I need to know or prepare in order to avoid awkward…
Hey ii friends in the Bay Area! I'm going to be in town for a few days and I thought it would be nice to get some friends together. RSVP and we'll send you the exact location (will be central) via email, and share it in the Interintellect Discord's Bay Area channel. See you there!…
Interintellect host Linus Lu invites all NYC ii members to spend an evening at the Whitney Museum. We'll roam the exhibition floors of the Whitney Biennial, enjoy and discuss contemporary American art, and explore all that the museum has to offer. Please RSVP as soon as possible so we have an accurate headcount for booking…
Join Scott Davies for a salon on cybernetics from its foundations to present. Cybernetics is, according to one of its pioneers, Norbert Wiener, concerned with “Control and communication in the animal and the machine.” Cybernetics is, as its core, the study of feedback models in social and biological systems. While most closely related to systems…
