In his debut salon, venture capitalist Roy Bahat explores the present state of labor organizing -- covering a little bit of history as context and then discussing different approaches at work today, union and otherwise. This will be a broad overview, to explore possible topics for future salons. Most of the focus will be on…
Join Ashley Zhang for dinner in the SF Mission District to celebrate the beginning of fall with friends, new and old! Come for a delicious dinner; stay for the delicious conversation. We'll be meeting at an Interintellect-favorite restaurant in the Mission District — please RSVP to receive restaurant details via email. Friends and family welcome!…
Podcaster, writer, and editor, Nigel Warburton discusses Public Philosophy A chance to discuss what public philosophy is, why it matters, and how best to do it. Nigel Warburton is the main interviewer for the very popular Philosophy Bites podcast which he makes with David Edmonds and which has had more than 42 million episode downloads. He is the…
In this salon, Brendan O'Connor hosts an IRL meet up in New York City to discuss forecasting. Think about the number of times per week you make a claim about the future, or hear about one from someone else -- it's probably several times per day. Philip Tetlock is one of the most important figures…
London Hosts Ben Fleming and Bryan Kam host an ii community meet up on Hampstead Heath. As the leaves begin to turn and the days grow short, this is a chance for London Interintellect members to gather and mingle. Bring a jacket, a pair of shorts, an umbrella, a pair of sunglasses, a hat, wellington…
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 delve into what does freedom means to every individual, how does passion plays a part in human consciousness, is reason reasonable, and if…
Tech emotionographer Pamela Pavliscak hosts an 8-month Interintellect Salon series while writing her new book #Feels: How Technology is Changing Our Emotional Life for the Better. Have you ever wondered why we feel compelled to note and name every new variation of sadness online? Or what you call that emotional hangover you can get after scrolling social…
In this salon, debut host Nicola Brown discusses our relationship with money and the emotions it can generate in us. People don’t really talk about money. We have just started talking about emotions. Which is EXACTLY why we should talk about both! Why don’t we feel comfortable talking about our money + emotions? Inspired by her…
What if you’re an Interintellect, but you just don’t know it yet…? Everybody thinks their life is weird. Most of us are right. Each of us holds our own brand of weird thing that makes us special, and with it, often comes its own brand of loneliness. Or so we thought. This past year, through…
Interintellect hosts Isabela Granic and Thomas Arnold invite you to their next poetry reading salon, this time with "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens. "Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. " Whether you've never read it or have considerable history with the poem…
In this Dead Economists Society Salon Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin discuss sex, "demography as destiny" and the economy “I think I may fairly make two postulata. First, That food is necessary to the existence of man. Secondly, That the passion between the sexes is necessary and will remain nearly in its present state. These two…
In this SuperSalon, the one and only Jim O'Shaughnessy joins Interintellect host, Bronwyn Williams to talk about clowns and prophets and why we love to hate those who tell us the truth about ourselves. "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they will kill you." ~ Billy Wilder In literature and…
