In this salon, Tom Beakbane explores the concept of consilience: the principle that evidence from independent, unrelated sources can “converge” on strong conclusions. Consilience is a new mode of thinking that is resulting from advances in many academic disciplines. Progress in biochemistry, genetics and mathematics allow us to make sense of the processes at work in the…
Interintellect Anwar AlKandari will continue to explore self-narratives – keeping track of where we’re heading to, looking for different ways to narrate our stories, and maintaining authenticity. “We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling.” –Jimmy Smith Recently in part 1, we have focused on…
In this salon, the steward of The Stoa, Peter Limberg asks how can we be virtuous when we are facing the End of the World? We are in times of crisis, and as scholars such as Nick Bostrom write, we are in an age filled with existential risks: misuse of nanotechnology, nuclear holocaust, misaligned superintelligence (AGI), weaponized…
Interintellect Patricia Hurducas will lead a discussion on nonviolent communication, the power of words, and the different forms of empathy. At this salon we will explore the topic of compassionate (nonviolent) communication…
In their debut Interintellect Salon, Trstn opens a space to explore objects, things, materiality and the immaterial, and delve into and catalyze tangents. "Show and tell" is an activity common in preschool and elementary school used to develop storytelling ability among children. It can be an icebreaker, help bridge the gap of school and home,…
In his latest Interintellect Salon, Visakan Veerasamy will discuss what it’s like to think about one’s work over the context of an entire lifetime. What are long games? One way of thinking about it is to work backwards from the end of your life. What do think you’ll wish to have accomplished, witnessed, learned, discovered at the…
In this new 4-part InterIntellect salon miniseries, Tanya Raj will lead deep-dive discussions on Studio Ghibli movies and how it has brought together people across generations. Watch the movies on Netflix and…
In their debut Interintellect salon, Kahil Corazo and R.J. Nestor invite you to an exchange of techniques and workflows for project management and task management in Roam Research. Many of us have been Roam…
In this Interintellect Salon, hosts Matjaz Leonardis and Maybe Gray will explore hidden emotional needs and how they affect our lives. Much of what we do is motivated by the…
Interintellect founder Anna Gát leads a salon to answer three important questions about the worldview of the contemporary individual: Are we facing a crisis of authority? Are we facing a crisis of identity? And are these two crises related? In 2021, few of us would deny that the world we grew up in has changed beyond recognition.…
In this salon, Peter Williams will explore tactics to reclaim your conversational confidence and evade impostor syndrome. We’ve all felt like a dummy before. When you're part of an interesting, intelligent, interdisciplinary group it can seem like a daily occurrence. 👀 “In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the…
In his latest Interintellect salon, Alex Danco explores systems thinking, and the paradox of order amongst chaos. Here is a puzzle: There's only one thing we know for sure about the world, and that's the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy always increases. The world is continuously trending towards disorder: in the long run, potential energy…
