In this exciting upcoming SuperSalon, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, the internet’s favourite “friendly ambitious nerd” Visakan Veeraasmy, and Interintellect founder Anna Gát discuss the future that is already here, just unevenly distributed. As we (hopefully) approach the tail end of the pandemic, many of us have started thinking, internally and in unison, what's next? How…
Join linguist Colin Gorrie in the second in a series of salons investigating language for a look at how fictional languages are created. Many celebrated works of speculative fiction over the last hundred years have involved elaborate world-building, often to the extent of having whole languages or families of languages created for the project. Think…
In this salon, debut host Dima Syrotkin explores the pros and cons of ambition. "A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions." - Marcus Aurelius “If…
Join Interintellect founder Anna Gát as she returns to the topic of last year's popular miniseries, A History of Love. In this first episode, we will talk about our evolutionary origins and our cultural development in tribes, what our prehistoric background might mean for our contemporary relationships, and what cave-time dating even looked like. Welcome…
Long-time Interintellect members Haider Al-Mosawi and Anwar AlKandari are thrilled to finally be hosting an IRL Interintellect meetup! This is an opportunity for people in Kuwait to get to know more about the Interintellect and to brainstorm topics that would make for interesting intellectual discussions. What conversations should we be having? How can we cultivate…
This is now a tradition in the ii: a casual Holiday gathering with wine, cake and cocoa, where we can sit down and take stock of this past year, make plans for the next, and enjoy each other's beloved company. Feel free to bring friends, spouses, and children, so we can share our stories and…
Malcolm Ocean hosts a salon to help you orient to the coming year, based on some of the content from his crew’s Goal-Crafting Intensive workshops. We’re going to do a couple of the exercises that we share with people as part of the pre-event exercises for our workshop, primarily the “Dream List” where you list…
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”― Zora Neale Hurston Interintellect Host Patricia Hurducas invites Interintellect members to a Letter Writing Workshop. On the 5th of January we will meet to have a conversation on the year that passed and on the New Year which will follow. During this workshop we will write…
Hi, my name is Nikolaus Sabathiel. I am a life coach for self-confidence & honest self-expression. Further, I am a software developer for augmented & virtual reality. In this salon…
“An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.” — Stephen King What are your favorite first sentences, the ones that grabbed you and never let go? Why is the beginning of any piece of writing so important? And what…
ii’s very own Camp Curiosity hosts Jeeva Vijay, Helena Ng, and Luke Butler invite you to a wholesome gathering to inspect our emotional experiences through collective metaphor building. This event is a rerun of last month’s Metaphoring salon, and is now adapted for European and Asian timezones. Whether it’s as stiff as a dead leaf,…
Join Russel Ramos and Vivek in exploring one of humanity's most mysterious and effective methods of problem-solving: asking for help. As we become accustomed to the near-limitless access of information on the internet, we can find ourselves believing that all our problems could be solved by finding the right YouTube video or Twitter thread. How…
