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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In this salon Bronwyn Williams and Daniel Thomason ask ‘What Would Terry Pratchett Do?’, exploring the wisdom and insights of this much loved author. “The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to…
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…
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.…
In this Interintellect salon, Hollis Robbins invites you to consider reading poetry. Especially if you're not a regular poetry reader (yet!) Are you secretly insecure about poetry? Wish you could tell what makes a good poem "good," a great poem "great," and a bad poem "bad" (it is not just a matter of opinion)? Don't know the…
In this host training series, ii Camp Curiosity host Helena Ng will walk with you on the journey of hosting your own ii salons through the lens of the Hero's Journey. Helena is the host of Camp Curiosity, a series of workshop salons on discovering your own flavours of play, building a compendium of curious…
