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 go for it. It’s time for us to deepen our knowledge of one another, and what better way is there than to visit some of…
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 potlucks, we will explore the vibrancy of musical tastes, aspects of listening, and emotional resonances lovingly baked into each song offering. February’s theme –…
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 enslaves people to their screens. But how far away is this from modern reality and the role of the screen in our current lives? Freedom…
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 Vivek! Just put your name in the bag! You’ll have between 5 and 10 minutes to present absolutely anything! Sing a song, tell a story,…
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 the systems of race, class and power in America in the 60s, series creator Matthew Weiner has said “I’ve always said this is a show…
Join Isabela Granic as we consider radical social transformations developing across the globe, and how the science and practice of belonging helps us navigate the implications of those changes. Many of us have felt our most profound moments of loneliness in the last several years. Although the pandemic surely has played a major role, signs…
Samuel Johnson enthusiast, Henry Oliver, will be exploring Johnson's philosophical writing about how to live a good life. Johnson is famous for his Dictionary, his Shakespeare, for Boswell's biography, and for his very quotable witticisms. But what can we still from Johnson about self-development? As he once said to his servant, you can never be…
