Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy leads an experimental mini-salon made up of your micro-salon ideas. Friends, new and old, welcome to Interintellect! We’ve now hosted a couple of events where we discuss, broadly speaking, what makes a good ii salon. Let’s try something slightly different: bring us your salon ideas, and let’s try them out in…
Join members of the completed “Gödel, Escher, Bach” reading group in reading through David Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity.” Share the pleasure of reading a challenging, thought-provoking book boosted by…
My focus is at the intersection of the good life, the just society, and techno optimistic capitalism. My name is Max Dostart-Meers and I am a Silicon Valley native currently in exile. Follow me here Twitter. In the second salon in the series, let's talk about whether there is a science to making beautiful cities.…
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 our world…
Fellow Interintellects Katrina Dela Cruz and Brian Ahuja invite you once again to a salon of inter(intellect)mingling, of finding friends and rediscovering old ones, in group convos and 1:1s, just the way you like it… The Great Interintellect Mingle is back again! Come meet new friends (and maybe some old friends as well) in the main room as well…
Gay men have experienced radical social progress in just a handful of years. In this salon, Daniel Golliher explores the challenges that come with such success, why the tools that worked to move gay men forward yesterday are quickly becoming harmful today, and what we can do about it. From the outside, especially if you…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about humility. It’s time for our casual weekly hangout! Let’s talk about humility! It can be a bit of a heavy…
Can we all just decide to be happy, and then just be happy? Join Mike Haber to discuss the ideas in the book 'The Courage to be Disliked' by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. The book is Ichiro Kishimi's perspective on the work of Alfred Adler - known as 'Individual Psychology'. It's a conversation between…
In this Dead Economists Society Salon Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin discuss city-dwelling "As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach." ~ Albert Camus. In this salon, we will discuss the opportunity - and the opportunity costs - of living and working…
Join Rachel as we explore how the environments of our childhood cause a person to grow up extremely sensitive to the situations and people around them. In addition, we will also discuss attunement and attachment as outlined in this section of the book. In this salon, we will discuss Part 2 of Dr Gabor Maté's…
Join linguist Colin Gorrie in the fifth salon in a series investigating language, this time spotlighting the history of the English language. In this salon, we'll turn back time to see how English once looked and sounded. We’ll look at how everything from the pronunciation to the grammar to the meaning of the words in…
Join Interintellect founder Anna Gát as she returns to the topic of last year's popular miniseries, A History of Love. In this second episode, we will talk about the poems and wars of antiquity, what it meant to move into big cities and build international empires, how big, hierarchical societies impacted loving and love-making, and…
