Fellow InterIntellect Helena Ng invites you to a ‘salon of salons’ where we attempt to answer curious questions from the many minds of the InterIntellect. So many questions, so many rabbit holes to fall into! In our pursuit of curiosity and play, many questions from the Camp Curiosity collective have surfaced, and we can’t wait to indulge…
Interintellect Maybe Gray invites you to question whether public education is better characterized as an essential element of civil society or as a tool for the socially acceptable enforcement of state control.…
In this salon, Interintellects Vidhika Bansal and Kushaan Shah ask: what does the spectrum of burnout look like? Most of us have experienced some form of burnout before. Hell, you might even be feeling it at this particular moment. Whether it’s through work, daily content creation on Twitter, keeping up with dating apps, parenting through a pandemic, or…
Progress writer Jason Crawford is writing a book about the modern world and how it was invented. In a series of salons, we will explore this content together, chapter by chapter, and get an inside look at the author’s creative process. Behind the world of our daily lives, there is a hidden world, one that keeps…
Join Interintellect Host Brian Toh on a Journey to Neverland, as we explore being a Lost Boy, and what it means to grow up. "All children, except one, grow up." Dear Peter Pan, I am a Lost Boy, in the twilight of age; stuck in between the childish playfulness of the stars, and the maturing of dawn.…
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…
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…
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…
