Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy leads an experimental mini-salon made up of your micro-salon ideas. Friends, new and old, welcome to Interintellect! We’ve now hosted a couple of events where we discuss, broadly speaking, what makes a good ii salon. Let’s try something slightly different: bring us your salon ideas, and let’s try them out in…
Join Dan Shipper, Visakan Veerasamy and Tiago Forte for an Interintellect salon about the future of note-taking! "The real flying car / hoverboard / jetpack of the 2020s will be a tool that helps you navigate information overload, not physical space." – @visakanv A recurring theme of today is that were are being flooded with…
With COVID hopefully (for now?) behind us, many in our community feel once again ready to gather offline. Interintellect founder Anna Gát will join our community and friends via her Twitter (@theannagat) to discuss the secrets and nuances of hosting offline gatherings, from venues to topics, from time zones to snacks, from promotion to weather...…
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 kickoff salon for Rhys Lindmark's series on What Information Wants. Join…
Join host Colin Gorrie as we read the great Old English epic poem Beowulf together, as part of the Reading Beowulf series. For our first meeting, we'll discuss the first major section of _Beowulf_: Beowulf's battle with Grendel. We'll also introduce ourselves to the Old English epic. What was the language like? How do we read it?…
How do literature and music interrelate, and how can they enliven each other? Join us for the Words and Sounds series led by Ulkar Aghayeva, Daniel Hass, Lily Rock, Jameel Martin, and Ryan Tuozzolo we will discuss intersections between the two and how they can inspire each other. This first salon will emphasize the convergence…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about psychotechnologies. Psycho-what? We’re talking about anything that tinkers with your psyche – meditation, journalling, fasting, sleep deprivation, psychedelics, travel, tea ceremonies, reading, you name it. What’s your “stack”? What works for you? What do you enjoy? Let’s talk about it! *** 🗓 ii Calendar 📋 Code of…
Join Werewolf game master Lukas Rosenstock for one more round of the infamous social deduction game - on an globally friendly timeslot. The Interintellect village appears to be a place of friendly people, but things change when the full moon appears. Some villagers turn into werewolves at night, haunting the village and killing their innocent…
Part Two of the Understanding Addiction series hosted by psychologist and neuroscientist Marc Lewis, and drug, policy, and intervention researcher and activist Shaun Shelly. In the second salon of the series, Marc presents his learning model of addiction, and co-host Shaun will support the discussion with some examples. Marc unpacks the concept of addiction as learning,…
Karen Hooper and Hermione Dace are Policy Lead and Senior Policy Analyst respectively in the Science and Innovation Unit at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Their work focuses on the future of food, alternative proteins, and technology development in Asia. This salon is part of a new ten-part series called The Future Of…
Join Rachel as we explore how the ADHD is influenced and impacts the family of one's origin. In addition, we will discuss how unconscious stresses growing up, and the frenzied society we live in exacerbate ADHD traits that might otherwise lay hidden. See series page for previous episodes. In this salon, we will discuss Part…
Join Interintellect hosts Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin in this latest entry in their Dead Economists Society salon series—now in its second year of monthly meetings! "You will hear of…
