Show & Tell (And Talk and Tangent)

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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,…

$15.00

Studio Ghibli’s Cultural Impact – Part 1

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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 come nerd out all you like. Nerding is good, nerding is encouraged! Originating from a tiny strip of land known as the Land of Rising Sun…

Rewrite the Stars: Project and Task Management with Roam

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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 for personal productivity and project management for more than a year. It sounds like a good time to exchange notes. We invite Roam Research users…

$15.00

Hidden Emotional Needs: Exploring our Shadow and Secret Longings

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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 kind of sensations and feelings we want to experience. Some of our desires - like that for a delicious slice of pizza - are clear…

$20.00

Phony to Phenom: How to Sidestep Impostor Syndrome

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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…

$15.00

An Introduction to the Commercial Prospects of Quantum Computing

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Join Dr. Mark Jackson and Trent Fowler in a discussion of the fundamentals underlying this new paradigm in information processing, and what its economic impacts might be in the coming years. Few technologies have emerged in recent memory which have elicited as much breathless excitement and trenchant skepticism as quantum computing. We will be discussing the state of quantum…

Thomas Mann and the Politics of Art

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In this salon, Danish-American literary critic and biographer Morten Høi Jensen leads a discussion of Thomas Mann’s journey from right-wing patriot to liberal democrat in an exploration of the fraught relationship between art and politics. Like many writers of his generation, Mann welcomed the outbreak of the First World War as a deliverance from the…

$20.00

Host Training: Salon Host Survival Guide – What Can We Learn from Moderating User Research Sessions and Apply It to Our Salons?

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In this special host training session with Olena Bulygina,  we will discuss potentially "tricky", challenging or unpredictable situations that can arise during one's salon — and together crack them through possible steps and approaches for resolution. As hosts, we bring our hearts, minds and imperfections, and this is what makes us different and, well, us.…

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