Ahh the last salon in my series "Reading Econ Classics Together" - we started with Adam Smith and ended with Elinor Ostrom. The perfect arc! So grateful for the incredible attendees 🙏🏻 My next series is starting on November 7: interintellect.com/series/go… America through movies!

A great pleasure to host one of the most brilliant people I know, @Liv_Boeree, at one of the @interintellect_ salons tonight ✨ We talked about the moral crime of factory farming: sentience and coordination problems, pets and the very non-mysterious suffering of animals, wilful ignorance and mislabelling, ethical eating and technological innovation, EA and AI, @dwarkesh_sp and Congress, the power of the individual to raise awareness in a democracy, and how people will look back on these times in the far future and see our customs as barbaric. What an incredible guest — and intellectual treat. Thank you, Liv! Video soon…

Excellent online @interintellect_ salon from the Reading Econ Classics Together series: Hayek! We talked about decentralized knowledge and intuitions, crypto and AI, surveillance and central planning, Tocqueville and capitalism, talent and selfishness -- Smith, Marx, and more!

Today's episode of my members only @interintellect_ salon series "Reading Economics Together: From Smith to Ostrom in 5 Texts" -- on Keynes. Excellent! We talked about post-work society and purpose, the Great Depression and effects of collective trauma on collective cognition, AI, automation and efficiency, the value of polyhistors and contrarians, @tferriss's 4 hour workweek, the effects of private life, the arts and real-world information on good theories, @tylercowen's GOAT book, status, society and @clarabcollier's new @asteriskmgzn essay, and much more. Video soon.

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Beautiful @interintellect_ literary picnic in San Francisco today: Progress and Poetry! We read Lucretius, Margaret Cavendish, Czesław Miłosz, Archibald MacLeish, Tracy K. Smith, and more ✍️ With Interintellect OGs, newcomers — a beautiful afternoon in the park.

A mission I have with @interintellect_ is to help people read the big texts. Works of literature, politics, religion, economics that define our world, our systems. One of my series is "Reading Economics Together: From Smith to Ostrom in 5 Texts" -- just hosted episode 2: Marx.

Just wrapped up the kickoff episode of my new Reading Economics Together series — with a conversation about Adam Smith of course. Total joy! What a great salon 😍 Superb participants! We talked about so much: materialism and incentives, AI and innovation, second tier cities, the Enlightenment, the Church, Hume, Bayes, Quesnay, Jared Diamond and Tim Marshall, Baumol and Veblen, Ostrom, altruism, Darwin, @tylercowen and marginalism, network theory and RIVERS, Kahneman, Leibniz, Jane Austen!!, genius vs scenius, @stripepress and @_brianpotter, how new disciplines get started, Europe vs China, Scotland! The next episode will be about MARX - July 25: interintellect.com/series/re… (we will go both left and right from Hegel in fact: Marx, Horkheimer, Kojeve — but also @FukuyamaFrancis and Zizek) In this series, we read the primary texts that you hear referenced all the time (and lied about), but few people actually sit down and read them. Well, now you will! Same as we do with the classics of literature and philosophy on Interintellect. This is the magic of clear and generative writing, the communication of ideas so people can learn from and build on them for hundreds of years! In other series, you’re reading Tocqueville, Homer, the Federalist Papers. Come join us 💪

Absolutely adored this book club I just hosted on @interintellect_ about Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being. We talked about exile and sex, integrity and betrayal, identity and chance, friendship and transgression, violence and freedom — the body, the soul, life and death. And so much more.. thank you, all!

My penultimate Karl Popper reading group salon!! Love these guys -- so many good takes 💜 On @interintellect_ of course:

Kicked off my Karl Popper 'Open Society' book club today on @interintellect_ that I am personally hosting. We talked about determinism and free will today, the blessings and dangers of political storytelling, the comforts of nostalgia, the importance of definite optimism -- and

What a joy! Just hosted my 7th end of year event in @interintellect_ — so wild 😍 Thank you for coming to our wonderful *End of Year Letter Writing to Self* conversation today! What a beautiful -- nearly 3 hour long -- gathering ❤️ We talked about self-knowledge and resilience, giving and taking, self-forgiveness and exploration, humility and humanity -- and so much more. Thank you for being on this amazing journey with me 🙏🏼 So grateful for all of you this year as well.

Delightful 4 hour play-reading of Tom Stoppard’s ‘Arcadia’ with @interintellect_ community members and hosts. Science, literature, genius, and sex: one of the most fun plays ever written! We will do — as per requests — ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’ next!

Interintellect salon just now - part of my Taste in the Age of AI series: Episode about literature! ✨ Fiction vs nonfiction, Aristotle and Orwell, how Austen invented the POV, Conrad vs Achebe, canons and literary “tour guides”, humility and empathy, AI and dealing with the past

Part 3 of my @interintellect_ series about good taste in the time of AI: Music — We talked about the Apollonian & the Dionysian, interpretation & the indescribable, Indian vs Western classical music — Paglia, Sacks, Sontag — jazz standards, conductors, sheet music, Taylor Swift…

Ahhh the delight! @interintellect_ table read today with salon hosts and community members: The Importance of Being Earnest! I read Miss Prism 😂 Laughed my head off!

Reading **Much Ado About Nothing** with the great Tara Isabella Burton and @interintellect_ community members and hosts yesterday! SO MUCH FUN! We're doing Oscar Wilde next: interintellect.com/salons/pl…

Great @interintellect_ salon today in my "Taste in the era of AI" series! We talked about Panofsky, Gombrich, Danto. How to tell when an object is ART. Public spaces vs exclusivity. Art as self-expression / as activism. Who gets to make art? What to do with AI generated "art"?