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…
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…
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…
“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…
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,…
Hi, I am Simon Ohler. After four years of working at Twitch and building a thriving creator community in the German speaking region, I retreated for three years to live and think freely, and to transform into a philosopher and an artist. I'm now joining the ii as a salon host, starting with a mini-series…
Russel Ramos continues his members-only track series where participants can each contribute a song for a musical tasting session, based on the theme of the month. During the musical…
Join Donald Frederick, Christophe Porot, and Douglas Casson for a thought-provoking conversation on society and tech. In the movie Incredibles 2 there is a villain called the screen slaver who…
Ever wondered what your fellow interintellects and friends can do? Have a skill or a talent you’d like to share with us? Come one, come all to Variety Hour with…
In the third salon of this three part mini series on the TV show Mad Men, Vivek hosts a discussion about ethnicity, assimilation and whiteness in the show. In describing…
