"The truth is the more unique and personalized the books you read, the more original a thinker you will become." My new piece: The Sovereign Reader american-innocence.com/p/the-sovere...

Private Kingdoms - my new essay on my new blog 'American Innocence' about life and observations in America. american-innocence.com/p/private-ki... In this post I write about private vs public life, and why having an undemocratic private life is actually better for liberal democracy:

New blog -'American Innocence'- about my new life in America: observations about culture, politics, way of life. In my first post I ask: if tragedies are so hard to watch because we feel a lot of it is avoidable why don't we have the same defenses in politics? american-innocence.com/p/tyranny-as...

Shiny new YouTube channel for my podcast The Hope Axis! My most recent guests included @katrosenfi.bsky.social @alicegribbin.bsky.social @sariazout.bsky.social -- great thinkers coming and sharing what makes them hope. This is very definite optimism 💎 Come build with us! www.youtube.com/@hopeaxis

The good Joel Whitney and Tara Isabella Burton in-person in New York -- July 24! interintellect.com/salons/radic...

Are you an avid reader who is also deeply interested in how the real world works? Coming up on Interintellect! The Economics of Middlemarch: A Literary Salon With A Natasha Joukovsky, Rohit Krishnan, Peter Isztin, and me! interintellect.com/salons/the-e...

Come, this will be fun! interintellect.com/salons/it-li...

My upcoming poetry picnic in San Francisco 📖 One of our key cities for in-person Interintellect communities, I can't wait to be visiting next week 🌁 Come along and read poetry and talk about America with us! interintellect.com/salons/walt-...

Building something new at Interintellect which is so new and amazing that I am completely PSYCHED! Hard to sleep and can’t wait to show everybody! For now only community and select investors… Great to know there is so much hope and opportunity for bringing people together.

On Thursday, Interintellect goes ABUNDANCE! A deep dive into how to do the economy better 🍇 Hosted by @ericara.bsky.social | In partnership with Otterpine Books helping indie authors worldwide! interintellect.com/salons/gener...

My next free, public, online training session for salon hosts -- on Interintellect or wherever you're planning to host a wonderful conversation where everybody has a great time. (The sculpture depicts the 3 goddesses of Free, Public, and Online) interintellect.com/salons/learn...

The great Noor Siddiqui of Orchid will be joining me for a SuperSalon on fertility tech with Dr. Lan Dao 🤖👶🏽🚀 Online! Embryo screening, artificial wombs, and other technological breakthroughs helping women conceive and have healthy babies. Come and join us! interintellect.com/salons/the-f...

Does AI have a place in academia? If so, how should professors, students, administrators use it? If it's overall bad, how can we avoid the purported loss of literacy and critical thinking skills it might deprive us of? Join our second great Interintellect debate: interintellect.com/salons/cheat...

My upcoming 6 part Interintellect salon series on how to have good taste in the age of AI. Selling out very fast so if you want a ticket, grab it now: interintellect.com/series/how-t...

this interintellect chat was really good, (@interintellect.bsky.social) Anna is such an excellent interviewer (@annagat.bsky.social) youtu.be/ozikgOhOeUM

So proud of my beautiful baby 🥰

Agnes Callard on The Hope Axis last night 💐 We talked about her new book Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life 📖 The two Hungarian girls in stripes discussed love & ethics, truth & ignorance, paradoxes & beliefs—and Kant, Aristotle, Mill, Nussbaum, William James—and of course Socrates....

The great Dan Williams is coming up on Interintellect! interintellect.com/salons/human...

I'm continuing my free online host training sessions! Come and learn the art of conversation ... through conversation: - how to inspire openness and insight in your group? - how to ensure everybody gets to share their views? - how to find a great topic? interintellect.com/salons/the-a...

Just hosted this week’s host training for the new cohort of amazing Interintellect salon hosts 🤩🥳🦄 We talked about challenge and inclusivity, nonpolitical spaces and balance, over-preparedness and relaxation, book chapters and conflict—books, moms, and more!

My Tocqueville reading group continues on Interintellect: May 24, 12pm EDT Come and join: this time we'll look at the relationship between democracy and morality! Very timely. The reading is ~100 pages and you can find a copy online. Limited spots: interintellect.com/salons/democ...

Dear @olgakhazan.bsky.social at an Interintellect salon just now talking about her new book ME BUT BETTER and the scientific theory and evidence for changing one’s personality. We talked about happiness and neuroticism, ambition and immigration, motherhood and depression—psychedelics, anger

Dear @olgakhazan.bsky.social at an Interintellect salon just now talking about her new book ME BUT BETTER and the scientific theory and evidence for changing one’s personality. We talked about happiness and neuroticism, ambition and immigration, motherhood and depression—psychedelics, anger

We're reading Tocqueville's 'Democracy in America' on Interintellect chapter by chapter -- hard to imagine a timelier book! interintellect.com/salons/tocqu...

The one and only TIM MARSHALL will be coming up on Interintellect - in June. Ticket page coming soon. I am beyond excited -- Prisoners of Geography is a huge favourite of mine, and now it has been updated for its 10th anniversary! A book for our times...

I'll be training salon hosts on April 23: free online event! Come along ... interintellect.substack.com/p/salon-host...

Grab your copy of 'Middlemarch' because it truly is the book of our times! A novelist/financial analyst, and economist, and a venture capitalist walk into a bar ... Well, not a bar: a salon. *The Economics of Middlemarch* Join the online discussion here: interintellect.com/salons/the-e...

The great Samuel Hammond is starting a Hegel and AI series on Interintellect 3 parts of course... Thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Online and open to all! Tickets: interintellect.com/salons/hegel...

The great @jonnelledge.bsky.social on Interintellect right now talking about his excellent and TIMELY book "A History of the World in 47 Borders" - Hosted by cartographer Tom Fish. Good stuff. Video soon!

I want to refresh my feed and follow some amazing people I never heard of. Drop your recommendations! Do you know a great female founder in aerospace or hard tech? Exciting young philosopher? Good emerging novelist? Historian who knows where it's at? Blogger with bold ideas?

October 9: @casssunstein.bsky.social returns to Interintellect! His new book 'On Liberalism - In Defense of Freedom' comes out in September, and I cannot imagine a better person to discuss this with! Whether you agree with Cass or not this is THE salon to be at! interintellect.com/salons/cass-...

Once again Interintellect is on 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 this week!

I made a 10-minute, richly illustrated summary of Margaret Cavendish's Blazing-World (1666), a very early (some say earliest) Science Fiction novel. Please have a look and share if you like it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zi...

Adorable biome game by @lionessgames.bsky.social

Come and join my coming Interintellect salon with @olgakhazan.bsky.social whose new book explores the science and reality of whether it's possible to change one's personality. And whether we'd really want that. interintellect.com/salons/is-pe...

I'm trying out a new membership tier on Interintellect that starts with a 7 day free trial! Gets you free tickets to public online events, access to offline socials around the world (NY, SF, London, Austin, DC next) 🏆 If you want to participate in the experiment, email me at [email protected]

Started something new: **The GrownUp Table** is free weekly mentoring calls with me available for women and immigrants. I can promise: no slogans, no politics - only real advice and help. If I can't help, I'll refer you to someone who can. Apply here: forms.gle/BATA92tUoRqc...

I'm trying out a new membership tier on Interintellect that starts with a 7 day free trial! Gets you free tickets to public online events, access to offline socials around the world (NY, SF, London, Austin, DC next) 🏆 If you want to participate in the experiment, email me at [email protected]

A good thing about being a startup CEO is that other people might stress about "making everybody happy" but you can actually build tools to achieve this.

On the new Interintellect platform many of my bets are paying off wrt new features!! - SuperSupporter plans 🏆 - people TIP hosts - members love FREE tickets, booking like crazy - MORE paid public tickets selling - more EVENTS listed in general - new hosts LOVE their new profiles!

A celebration of an incredible new essay collection, "Happier Far": @notorioustib.bsky.social is hosting @dianemehta.bsky.social on Interintellect 📖 Online and April 10! Tix: interintellect.com/salons/what-... Find an expert - the essay Her Greatest Hits - here: longreads.com/2025/02/18/h...

Excited to bring this insanely important topic to Interintellect! Charles Piller's "Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s" (Simon & Schuster) is a must read - come and join our discussion! April 7. Online. FREE for members. interintellect.com/salons/docto...

Oh wow! This is so cool: Derek Sivers put our entire Interintellect salon and hand-edited transcript on his site 😍 Check it out here: sive.rs/2025-02-anna

Excited to bring this insanely important topic to Interintellect! Charles Piller's "Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s" (Simon & Schuster) is a must read - come and join our discussion! April 7. Online. FREE for members. interintellect.com/salons/docto...

A snippet from my Interintellect salon with Derek Sivers. We all understand the world from our own POV...

I wrote about what's happening... "Every individual has the capacity to understand these matters and find solutions. Every individual has the capacity to ask questions and listen better... interintellect.substack.com/p/an-america...

I wrote about what's happening... "Every individual has the capacity to understand these matters and find solutions. Every individual has the capacity to ask questions and listen better... interintellect.substack.com/p/an-america...

A beautiful online salon coming up on Interintellect! Theologian and preacher Matthew Ichihashi Potts will talk with us about his extraordinary book Forgiveness: An Alternative Account Hosted by religion and technology ethics scholar @thomasarnold.bsky.social interintellect.com/salons/what-...

One of my favourite humans of all time Kyla Scanlon just came on my “new” (episode 20!) podcast The ⁠Hope Axis 🚀 We talked about polarisation and economic stressors, the 3 types of GenZ, and housing, hope, fertility, DOGE, social fragmentation, bad vibes, the White House — and more! Coming soon ❤️

The great @jonnelledge.bsky.social is coming up on Interintellect! Come and let's learn together: ***A History of the World in 47 Borders: A Conversation with Jonn Elledge*** 🗺️ interintellect.com/salons/a-his...