The Happiest Man Alive

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…

Free

Host Office Hours: Facilitating the Conversation (hangout in the ii Café)

Online

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…

Interintellect goes to the Whitney Biennial 2022

New York NY

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…

Free

Introduction to Cybernetics

Online

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…

$15.00

Baby Steps to Beowulf: Old English for Beginners

Online

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…

Leading Change in an Exponential World

Online

Join Jacob Huber, founder of Revolutionary Character, to discuss the methods and science behind starting at an individual level to address change. We are profoundly lucky to live in a world filled with inspiring ideas, scientific progress, and enormous amounts of free information on the internet. If ideas alone were enough, though, wouldn’t we already…

$15.00

Interintellect Lunch in Bangalore – With Anna Gát

Koramangala, Bengaluru

Dear all, So excited to be in Bangalore! Come join us for coffee, tea, and snacks, and a relaxed conversation on the future of culture and online communities in India. The exact location of the gathering will be shared via email with those who signed up, as well as in the India channel in the Interintellect…

Free

Raising Competent, Independent, and Self-Driven Kids

Online

Mother and Interintellect producer Maria Górska-Piszek wants her daughter to enter adulthood feeling capable, competent, and excited for the future. She knows this will require experimentation in the real world, learning things by trial-and-error, and making a bunch of mistakes. Join her for an exploration of whether independence and agency can be taught, how can…

$20.00

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

London London

In this exciting and exclusive live 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 origins of civilization and the evolutionary roots of humanity's appetite for intoxication. The event, which is free for those who register, will take…

Free

Children’s Books With Life Lessons

Online

In this salon, best-selling children's books author K.A. Mulenga leads a discussion on children's books with life lessons. Not all children's books these days teach a life lesson or have a life lesson attached to them. In this day and age, can children learn from books or is everything centred around gadgets, devices, and apps,…

$10.00