Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about marketing. Hi, Visa here! In a previous life I used to be a professional marketer at a software company, and before that I used to do promotions for music events, and from time to time I still do marketing consulting to pay the bills. Is…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy leads a discussion on how to host great salons. Friends, new and old, welcome to Interintellect! What makes a good ii salon? How do you choose a good topic? How do you make it compelling, interesting, exciting? And once you’ve got people interested, how do you make sure that it goes…
Casual pre-Thanksgiving community gathering - come join us for friends, food, laughter, and beer! Please note that you must RSVP to this event to attend. You can follow any updates to this event and the others in our #bay_area channel, and keep in touch with other attendees! Menu: here. We can't wait to see you…
Daniel Golliher presents a discussion about two of modern America's most profound thinkers, with all of their sharp similarities and differences. She fled the rise of totalitarianism in Europe in the early twentieth century, and, after coming to America, she settled in Manhattan. Her work and her personality were a force, and in between cigarettes…
You do amazing research! Why not share it with the public? Learn about hosting Interintellect salons as a graduate student, post-doc, or professor with Interintellect host Donald E Frederick. Interintellect is a global community where every day, we come together at salons. From across the globe to talk about philosophy and science, art and technology,…
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,…
In her debut salon, former college debater and generally argumentative person Alice Fine will lead a discussion on formal debate, including high school and college debate, political debates, and debates among public intellectuals (such as the Munk Debates). " the goal of persuasion above the goal of truth. The debater's strength lies not in intellectual…
Rosano and Vivek invite you to a salon on creation and consumption becoming one. What can various traditions of non-duality teach us about being spontaneous? What makes someone a good improviser? What makes for a good experience on improvisation? How much do improvisers plan? Is it something that is “manufactured” or simply “channeled?” Can improvisation…
After our pre-Thanksgiving drinks in San Francisco, we will gather our Bay Area community at the Interval for a casual Sunday hangout over coffee or cocktails. We will discuss the future of online communities, how institutions like The Long Now Foundation and Interintellect can best address the new conditions in which we today build our…
Join London ii hosts Bryan Kam and Flick Hardingham as we continue our journey through Will Durant's 'The Story of Philosophy', discussing Nietzsche’s origins of morality and what it means for us today. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) has two famous catchphrases. God is dead. This exposes religion as a construct, created by the human…
Interintellect host Meghan Kane hosts a cosy Thanksgiving meal in Berlin Let's get together IRL for a potluck dinner during Thanksgiving weekend for some food, drinks, warm discussion, and cultural exchange! The InterIntellects in Berlin come from countries near and far, so while Thanksgiving will be the reason to celebrate, we will have our own…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about gratitude. It's Thanksgiving season! Let's just kick back, relax and chat about good times, good friends, good vibes. (This is the third of a monthly hangout series for the Interintellect community.) Recommended reading: None! Just come and share your own stories and experiences! – Cover…
