Nibras hosts a salon to challenge the adage "making friends as an adult is hard". A salon for sharing stories and approaches to cultivating the most beautiful and nourishing craft of all: friendship. Let's explore the skills for building friendships into adulthood and beyond. --- We've been inundated with the message that friendship and connection…
My focus is at the intersection of the good life, the just society, and techno optimistic capitalism. My name is Max Dostart-Meers and I am a Silicon Valley native currently…
Join members of the completed “Gödel, Escher, Bach” reading group in reading through David Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity.” Share the pleasure of reading a challenging, thought-provoking book boosted by…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about writing. It’s time for our casual weekly hangout! Let’s talk about writing: notes, tweets, essays, blog posts, books, you name…
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…
What are social technologies? How can they be used to address the challenges facing our world? Join veteran hosts Linus Lu and Dave Crouch to discuss how we can build and adapt cultural constructs to encourage peace, cooperation, and tolerance in a constantly-changing world. We mostly think of technology as devices, tools, and machines: physical…
A book club salon, hosted by Henry Oliver who writes The Common Reader. We will discuss The Tortoise and the Hare, by Elizabeth Jenkins, one of the great post-war…
Join Jimmy Wales for a fun quiz on his platform inspired by his family quiz nights during lockdown. Quiz Night Beyond is a way to do fun pub quizzes over video online with friends and family. Jimmy designed QuizNightBeyond.com during lockdown as a part of his exploration in how to build healthier social spaces online - an extension of…
Join Werewolf game master Lukas Rosenstock for another round of the infamous social deduction game. The Interintellect village appears to be a place of friendly people, but things change when…
Visual artist turned medical educator Alexa Miller will host this salon centering experiences with visual art as a catalyst for expansion, innovation, connection, bias awareness, and shameless enjoyment. This Salon's topic is: Great Works of Art and Powerful Questions: The Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) Approach. The first in a 6-part monthly series, this Salon will feature in-depth…
In this Salon, veteran Host Scott Davies returns to take an interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach to exploring the topic of existential hope. No matter your background or discipline, all perspectives…
In this salon, Daniel Golliher examines the reception that both thinkers received in their own time, and how it compares to their legacies in the present. This salon is the… Continue reading Knives Out: The Public Reception of Ayn Rand and Hannah Arendt
