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…
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…
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…
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…
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 origins of civilization and the evolutionary roots of humanity’s appetite for intoxication. While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Political polarisation, Substack, Netflix, TikTok - the modern world seems to conspire against the introspective reading of long fictional texts. Anna Gát looks at the chances of survival for the novel in the 21st century. A seminal experience of my adolescence: withdrawing and curling up with a book, re-emerging days later shaken, fulfilled, accomplished, a…
Dear Members and Hosts, Interintellect is always growing and changing – I am so blessed to be looking after this beautiful global community, where we gather at online salons around the clock and offline meetups around the world, hang out in our Discord channels and DMs, and sometimes even travel together! Since joining us, Interintellect…
In this salon, best-selling children’s books author K.A. Mulenga leads a discussion on self-publishing books. For all aspiring authors and those who have already published and just need some insight from a fellow author, this one's for you. The publishing industry has grown immensely in the past 10 years allowing people to publish books on their…
