In this six-month Interintellect Salon series, writer and editor Julie Mosow shares everything she knows about writing a book length manuscript, becoming the writer you've always hoped to be...and, most importantly, about finishing the work you start. We gravitate toward stories from an early age. But when it's time to write, we sometimes forget how…
In this salon, Interintellect host Scott Davies explores the concept of 'Creative Destruction' We live in an age of increasing disruption, volatility and opportunity. With each passing year, the ways in which we conduct business, interact with one another and live our lives is changing more rapidly. A way of viewing this disruption and volatility…
ii’s very own Camp Curiosity invites you to a wholesome gathering to inspect our emotional experiences through collective metaphor building with hosts Helena Ng, Luke Butler, and Jeeva Vijay Prasath Whether it’s as stiff as a dead leaf, or as tumultuous as the rolling storm...we each experience a wide range of emotions that are rooted…
In this salon, Tanya Raj will lead a light and fun gathering to mark the end of 2021. As the year wraps up, it is a good time to reflect, remember, and recreate! In this salon, we will talk a little, experience silence a little, work on our dream projects a little, and play some…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about being prolific. Whatcha working on? What's your plan? Let's talk about our ambitions and goals and long-term dreams and hopes, and what we intend to do to make them happen! (This is the 4th session in a monthly hangout series for the Interintellect community.) Recommended…
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…
The Dead Economists Society Salon series continues as Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin discuss game theory. “If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.” ~John von Neumann In this meeting of the Dead Economists Salon Series we're going to play - with game theory. Hosted by: Bronwyn…
Come gather with Mariel Rosic and the ii Bay Area community at one of San Francisco's best-kept secrets, and one of the host's favourite spots in the entire city. This will be a casual gathering, where we'll be sharing stories of where our curiosity is leading us these days, reflecting on our hopes for the…
Join Interintellect Interintellect founder Anna Gát and host Donald Frederick in an exploration of our guilty intellectual pleasures. While we may read them primarily for their ideas and the emotions they evoke, the truth is no writer exists without a context: our society's changing norms, taste, and morality affect our view of them just as…
In this SuperSalon, Vaughn Tan, author of The Uncertainty Mindset: Innovation Insights from the Frontiers of Food, joins technologist Amie Pollack for a delicious discussion of innovation, uncertainty, and food. Do you ever look down at your plate in a nice restaurant and wonder how many kitchen stations were responsible for completing your dish? Have…
Join Grin and the rest of the the Boston gang to catch up, look back on 2021, and prepare for the upcoming year. As the wind howls and the snow blows outside, we'll warm our bones at our venue in Arlington. While the conversation could go anywhere, a natural theme will be the upcoming new…
In this salon series, Tanya Raj will lead deep-dive discussions on The Prophet by Khalil Gibran and his philosophy on living a life with purpose and meaning. In this salon, we will conclude the series by delving into facets of religion and what does it mean to be religious, what is death if not the…
