Can we all just decide to be happy, and then just be happy? Join Mike Haber to discuss the ideas in the book 'The Courage to be Disliked' by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. The book is Ichiro Kishimi's perspective on the work of Alfred Adler - known as 'Individual Psychology'. It's a conversation between…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about humility. It’s time for our casual weekly hangout! Let’s talk about humility! It can be a bit of a heavy topic, but let's just dive into it. What's the difference between "real" and "fake" humility? What has your experience been? *** 🗓 ii Calendar 📋 Code of…
Gay men have experienced radical social progress in just a handful of years. In this salon, Daniel Golliher explores the challenges that come with such success, why the tools that worked to move gay men forward yesterday are quickly becoming harmful today, and what we can do about it. From the outside, especially if you…
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…
Progress writer Jason Crawford is writing a book about the modern world and how it was invented. 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. Behind the world of our daily lives, there is a hidden world, one that keeps our world…
My focus is at the intersection of the good life, the just society, and techno optimistic capitalism. My name is Max Dostart-Meers and I am a Silicon Valley native currently in exile. Follow me here Twitter. In the second salon in the series, let's talk about whether there is a science to making beautiful cities.…
Join members of the completed “Gödel, Escher, Bach” reading group in reading through David Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity.” Share the pleasure of reading a challenging, thought-provoking book boosted by your friendly peers’ additional eyes, hearts, minds, and life experiences. Maybe you heard about it on Naval's podcast, or perhaps you follow the father of quantum computing…
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…
“Going outside is highly overrated.” ~Ernest Cline, Ready Player One Jim O'Shaughnessy, the best-selling author and founder of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management is back to discuss optimism, escapism, and (as one well-known person put it) "reality privilege" in a new SuperSalon hosted by court jester for hire/hometown prophet, Bronwyn Williams. “The vast majority of humanity lacks…
Hosts Max Beverton-Palmer and Matt Nguyen are from the Internet Policy Unit at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Max’s work focuses on social media, online regulation, and AI governance and ethics. Matt’s work focuses on digital rights, platform governance, and the future of the public sphere. In this salon, they will be discussing…
Eyal Shay is a podcast host and dialectician on a mission to meet as many amazing people as possible, and get as many people to focus on understanding what living well means, and…
Psychologist and neuroscientist Marc Lewis, along with drug policy reformer Shaun Shelly, will host a four-part salon series on the nature of addiction and new approaches to treatment and care. These salons will challenge the dominant but misguided disease model of addiction and replace it with progressive approaches that integrate emotional learning, environmental factors (family,…
