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Toronto, CanadaHey, Toronto and GTA! We're have an April meetup, hosted by Ben Parry. It’s a great opportunity to meet others based in Toronto, learn about some of the amazing projects going on in the city, make new friends, and engage in stimulating discussions. The theme will be: Visions & Dreams. What is your vision for…
Death Over Coffee: The Positive Side of Death Anxiety
Join Maura McInerney-Rowley and Carolyn Gregorie to connect with kindred spirits and explore your relationship with death in a bi-weekly series. Gather with us every other Sunday for a cozy and intimate salon, where we delve into the latest edition of the Hello, Mortal newsletter. Embracing the concept of death contemplation as a wellness practice, our salon provides…
Community Townhall – Part 2 | First Look at the New Interintellect Platform
OnlineJoin Interintellect Head of Engineering Timothy Lim for a first look at the new Interintellect platform.
The Philosophy of Crypto – Li Jin with Packy McCormick and Zoë Hitzig
Join crypto investor Li Jin in conversation with investor and writer Packy McCormick (The Great Online Game) and Harvard economist and poet Zoë Hitzig (Co-author of A Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods with Vitalik and Glen Weyl) for a discussion of the philosophic underpinning of crypto. We'll delve into John Rawls, political philosophy, and…
Hosting 101: From Topic Selection to Tone and Audience Management
OnlineJoin a FREE AND PUBLIC training session in the art of hosting with Arkadiusz Synowczyk. We’ll discuss all you need to know about hosting online: tone, topic selection, listing, promotion, and audience management! No Interintellect host is born with the knowledge of how to create, promote, and run a successful, engaging online salon—but these skills are…
Addiction and Disability
OnlinePursue the philosophical foundations of addiction in a series hosted by John T. Maier, psychotherapist and philosopher. This is the 3rd session in the philosophy of addiction series, and will focus on addiction and trauma. In the law, addiction is understood as a kind of disability. This view gives us an alternative picture of how to think…
Wilde in Hollywood, or How the Golden Age Got Naughty
OnlineHollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. But how did Wilde, who died over a decade before the first feature film, help to make the movies? Join Kate Hext, associate professor of English literature at the University of Exeter and author of the new book Wilde in the Dream Factory:…
IRL – Washington D.C.: “JOIN OR DIE” Film Screening @ LOC + IRL Get-Together!
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Breakthroughs in Scientific Theory
OnlineJoin Alex Criddle for the seventh salon in the Breakthroughs series and explore breakthroughs in scientific theory and paradigms. In this first of two salons following Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of…
Western Canon Book Club: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
OnlineExplore with Joseline Yu the dangerous games played to test a knight's virtue in the Middle English romance poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," as part of the Western…
Insurance and Other Fearsome Beasts: Understanding the Myths and Methods of Health Insurance
OnlineJoin Tina Marsh Dalton for this inaugural salon in our Roots of Progress Fellows series. Insurance is vital to accessing modern medical care, but why is it so complex? In…
Creative Pairs in History
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with Alex Tabarrok and host Wes Chow
Alex Tabarrok, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, joins hosts Alaka Halder and Wes Chow to discuss cryptoeconomics – the combination of cryptography and economics – which provides a lens into how web3 is opening up fundamentally new ways of trading, cooperating, and communicating.
Status as a Service: Revisited
with guest Eugene Wei and host Nathan Baschez
Much like Clay Christensen’s theory of disruption, as a management theory becomes more well known, it can change the behavior of managers. Three years in, it feels like many of the most interesting trends in social networking are directly responding to the status as a service thesis.
On one end of the spectrum, we have Twitter actively monetizing status by charging for blue checks. On the other end, we have apps like BeReal seemingly in revolt against the idea that users crave status. What’s really going on?
Eugene and Nathan host a discussion where we attempt to gain clarity.
Building to Last: Past, Present and Future
with Elizabeth Barlow Rogers and Hailey Phillips
World-renowned author, landscape preservationist, and civic activist Elizabeth Barlow Rogers joins energy and infrastructure attorney, birth doula, and Interintellect host Hailey Phillips to explore what it takes to build timeless institutions of value, transcending contemporary political drama and lasting for generations.
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Scientist, essayist, and novelist Erik Hoel joins Twitter creator Visakan Veerasamy, Interintellect editorial lead Christin Balan, and Interintellect founder Anna Gát to discuss talent, Substack, audience capture, community, controversy, gatekeepers, academic bureaucracy — why we need more and better fiction, why science is really not that different from art, and how there is a place for all of us. And publishers, practicalities, platforms, and more! An Interintellect special.