Interintellect Hostcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, Jason Shen and Ravi Joseph about Jason's new book, Weirdly Brilliant, and his upcoming salon series. We discuss Jason's journey from tech entrepreneur to executive coach, what it means to be an outlier, fostering your own sense of ambition, and how to find your place in the modern world.

Jason's salon series: https://interintellect.com/series/the-outlier-series-with-jason-shen/

Find Jason on X: https://x.com/JasonShen

Find Ravi on X: https://x.com/rjkarmayogi

In this episode, philosopher Ryan Miller and host Ravi Joseph discuss philosophical themes in the movie Barbie. The conversation covers philosophers from Aristotle to Nietzsche to Haslanger, as well as Ryan's journey from being a curious child to becoming a professional philosopher.

Ryan's salon series on Interintellect: https://interintellect.com/series/philosophy-of-barbie-exploring-western-philosophy-through-cinema/

Find Ryan on X: https://x.com/rmm4pi8

Find Ravi on X: https://x.com/rjkarmayogi

Host Linus Lu chats with two of Interintellect's inaugural recipients of the Public Minds Fellowship: Vidhika Bansal and Zelda Poem. Vidhika is doing her fellowship on the art of friendship, and Zelda is helping dropouts and hackers figure out alternative education paths. You can find out more about their fellowships here:

https://interintellect.substack.com/p/friendship-and-unschooling-new-winners

Vidhika Bansal: twitter.com/vidhster
Zelda Poem: www.zeldapoem.com/
Linus Lu: www.linuslu.com/

In this episode, host Linus Lu talks to professor and writer Vaughn Tan about his ongoing salon series about not-knowing, and in particular, about risk, the different ways that the concept of risk is misapplied, and how to think more clearly about the things we don’t know.

Vaughn's next salon on April 20th: https://interintellect.com/salon/thinking-about-not-knowing-misnaming-the-beasts/

Vaughn Tan: https://vaughntan.org/

Linus Lu: https://twitter.com/Linus_Lu

In this special episode, we have a three-way conversation with the first three recipients of the inaugural Interintellect Public Minds fellowship: Bryan Kam, Mary Bajorek, and Linus Lu. The Interintellect fellowship was created to support Interintellect members for 6 months on a focused project, and enable the sharing of their ideas both on and off the Interintellect platform. And in this episode, the fellows share the inspirations for their respective work and their mutual curiosities about each other’s projects.

More about the Interintellect fellowship and the recipient projects: https://interintellect.substack.com/p/interintellect-fellowship-awardees?publication_id=860330&post_id=98744602

Bryan Kam: https://twitter.com/bryankam

Mary Bajorek: https://twitter.com/mary_bajorek

Linus Lu: https://twitter.com/Linus_Lu

In this episode, host Linus Lu talks to Helena Roth about her salon series diving deep into her philosophy of "doing gentle with an edge."

The next installment in Helena's salon series: https://interintellect.com/salon/awareness-how-does-awareness-help-me-do-gentle/

Helena's full series info: https://interintellect.com/series/doing-gentle-with-an-edge-an-exploration/

Helena's book: https://www.amazon.com/Doing-Gentle-edge-Helena-Roth-ebook/dp/B08WTD5W66

Cover art: Nat Sharpe (https://twitter.com/nat_sharpe_)

James Harris will lead a workshop salon on March 10th about dealing with rejection and failure, drawing from experiences as a writer and comedian for more than 20 years. 

Salon details: https://interintellect.com/salon/how-to-fail-coping-with-professional-rejection/

James Harris: https://twitter.com/JamesHarrisNow

Gabi Weinberg of StartUpRabbi hosts his debut salon on February 27, which explores the historical grandparent-grandchild relationship along with our present-day grandparent-grandchild relationships.

Salon details: https://interintellect.com/salon/in-celebration-of-grandparents/

Gabi Weinberg: https://twitter.com/StartUpRabbi

Linus Lu: https://twitter.com/Linus_Lu

In this episode, host Linus Lu talks to Nolan Yuma about his upcoming salon series about creating a borderless world starting on February 5th. 

Link to Nolan's salon series: https://interintellect.com/series/without-borders-a-salon-series/

More on Nolan: https://www.withoutborders.fyi/about/

In anticipation of Kevin Zhai’s debut salon on 1/26, host Linus Lu sits down with Kevin to talk about what makes for great storytelling, how everyone can improve their storytelling, and more.

Kevin’s salon: https://interintellect.com/salon/storytelling-and-you-lowering-the-stakes-on-creativity/

Kevin Zhai: https://twitter.com/heykzhai