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…
Join hosts Dave McDougall and Orpheas to get together in person and meet fellow Interintellects in New York City! Celebrate pre-holidays together with the ii community! Note: ID and proof of COVID vaccinations may be required by the venue More information will be shared in the #new_york Discord channel. *** 🗓 ii Calendar 📋 Code of Conduct…
Can you vividly describe your own way of connecting with others online? How about a way different from your own? If you are intrigued by these questions, then this salon is for you. It is an invite to dig into the difficulties and excitements we experienced when connecting online. I am Riccardo and for a long…
Let's Get Mystical with Joanna Burns as she explores the use of tarot cards as a tool for self-discovery and therapy. While the tarot is mostly known to be a medium for divination used by mystical tarot readers, there is little discourse on how these mysterious cards have also been shown to be a powerful…
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…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about rest and relaxation. It’s December! What a year it's been, huh? Let’s just kick back, relax and chat about good times, good friends, good vibes. (This is the fourth of a monthly hangout series for the Interintellect community.) Recommended reading: None! Just come and share…
