Authority and Identity: Faces of a Crisis – With Anna Gát

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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.…

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

Entropy And Evolution: An Introduction to Systems Thinking with Alex Danco

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…

$40.00

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…

WWTD – What Would Terry Pratchett Do? – A Discourse on the Philosophy of the Discworld

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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…

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

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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How to Read a Poem

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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…

$10.00