Interintellects Catherine Woodiwiss and Amir Hajizamani invite you to an intimate exploration of healing after trauma. How do we make sense of trauma? How does a major life disruption change the trajectories of our lives? How do the stories we tell ourselves — and others — change and re-solidify as we heal? Following on a…
Fellow InterIntellect Helena Ng invites you to take a Play Day and join forces with some friendly curiosity buddies for a communal nerding session. Last month at Camp Curiosity, we discussed the technique of deconstruction and applied it to ideal emotional states across cultures, which led to the emotional dissonance of tech, then a citizen…
After our popular book club reading Donald Braben's Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization, the author joins Anton Troynikov and Interintellects from around the world to discuss the future of research. The subject of the first Interintellect Book Club, Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization, is an exhortation and roadmap for how to reform…
In his debut Interintellect Salon, Peter Williams will explore on-stage performance to understand what it takes to dazzle and delight the toughest audiences and what lessons we can apply in our daily lives. You've been planning this day for months. You meet your friends in the parking lot to all head in together. But Timmy…
Silence is more of an idea. A notion. The silence around us may contain a lot, but the most interesting kind of silence is the one that lies within. A silence which each of us must create. About this Event If the early 21st century seemed hellbent on depriving us of silence, the current pandemic,…
Former washingtonpost.com CEO, investor Christopher Schroeder joins us for a discussion about the future of the news industry: it seems to be the consensus that decentralisation is inevitable, but exactly will it happen? And how can you not miss out? Global tech/venture investor Christopher Schroeder is also the former CEO of washingtonpost.com. He has backed…
Interintellects Lucas and Clo invite you to this intimate Salon, for a deep dive, exploring the ways music playfully shapes our lives. --- Music plays an important role in our lives, as it can affect our mood and our taste. How can we not understand the lyrics and yet still feel them? How does music…
Matt Groh and Bill Powers host a discussion of the book The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World and explore how gifts and gift giving are at the core of creativity in art, science, and beyond. What distinguishes art from commodities? 42 years ago, Lewis Hyde's The Gift argued that the work of…
Interintellect Maybe Gray invites you to explore our tendency to see "Good" and "Bad" separately in ourselves, our relationships, and our political perspectives. “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts.…
In this salon, debut host Lukas Rosenstock and returning host Vajresh Balaji will discuss our growing social circles and the tools we use to manage them. Humans probably evolved in smaller tribes where everybody knew everyone else. Dunbar’s number says there are around 150 relationships we can retain in our heads. Modern life, on the…
Writer, painter, and Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia explores whether real art and good business are really the moral opposites they’re taught to be. How do you get rich by being an artist? How can you be an artist, maybe even a performance artist, at whatever you do? How can that way of thinking help…
Étienne Fortier-Dubois leads a series of thematic discussions on the work of science fiction author Ted Chiang. In Part 3, we discuss non-human beings and how their psychology and biology may differ from ours. Ted Chiang ranks among the best living authors of science fiction. Though he cannot be described as prolific — his entire…
