Rethinking “Work/Life Balance”: A Holiday Self-Exploration with Gena Gorlin and Roy Bahat

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Join psychology professor and psychologist Dr Gena Gorlin, venture capitalist and writer Roy Bahat, and Interintellect founder Anna Gát for a discussion of work, rest, and the fully-lived life. Before the Holidays, we will gather for a roundtable-style salon to explore the much discussed but often misunderstood questions around so-called "work/life balance": how does the meaning we derive from our…

$20.00

The Art of Resting

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Unwind with Krupali in this salon where we will kick back in our most comfortable spots with our pets and our teas (or coffees) and possibly have a conversation about what the concept of 'rest' means to us individually. Never has the need for rest seemed more important than during this period of the COVID-19…

$10.00

How’s Your Autism?

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Debut host Sasha Chapin, is a slightly autistic writer/coach who's currently pursuing ventures in perfume, charter cities, meta-science, and talking to groups of people. We are in a time where being neurodivergent seems to be kind of good, to a degree. The fundamental characteristic of being on the spectrum is not hearing the social music…

$10.00

The Real-World Origins of Invented Languages: From Quenya to Dothraki

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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…

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Let’s Explore Ambition

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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 a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.” - Alan Lightman,…

$10.00