What if you could navigate your hardest decisions with the same precision as a chess grandmaster? Jennifer Shahade and Alaka Halder are breaking down how to build your own mind palace to handle chaos, pressure, and risk. Don't miss it: interintellect.com/salons/thinkin…

"Don't tell me about the beautiful, ordered harmony of the universe. Tell me what it’s actually like to live in it." Alaka Halder and David Bather Woods explore in this insightful salon why Schopenhauer rejected abstract math-like beauty to focus on the raw reality of human suffering.

It’s a strange and sobering cycle: someone starts with good intentions and slowly morphs into the very tyrant they once opposed. Why does power seem to push leaders down this path, and are our institutions even designed to handle that kind of pressure? In this salon,

Senior people may get more out of AI tools as they know what good work looks like and can tell when AI is missing context or gone off the rails. Earlier in your career, you're building that judgment. But do you need reps building from scratch? Does AI change the learning curve?

R.I.P. Christopher Sims (21 Oct. 1942 - 14 March 2026) - a giant in macroeconomics and one of the finest human beings I have ever met -

Private Discords and WhatsApp chats are a poor substitute for public forums. Noisy, disorganized, hard to search. I'd pay for X, LinkedIn, or old-school forums if they protected you from slop and spam. I'm hiring right now and using LI Premium; $30+/mo buys you zero respite.

🤠 This weekend in Austin.

Sometimes Claude Opus 4.6 is great, and sometimes it forgets that (1) today is Sunday and (2) Tuesday is not the day after Sunday, even though you’ve told it at least three times. 🙃

We've spent decades obsessing over sentence length, but for someone not thinking past next week, a 10-year term is irrelevant. In this recent salon with Jennifer Doleac & Alaka Halder, they discuss why we must stop focusing on the severity of punishment and start increasing the

We’ve spent decades terrified of overpopulation, but the real crisis might actually be that we’re running out of people. In this salon, Dean Spears and Alaka Halder dive into why falling birth rates are a human welfare problem we aren't ready for. If you want to know why

How does Spectrum retain any business in Austin? Constant outages, steep rate hikes, zero flexibility, and competition from better, cheaper options like Google Fiber. I’m excited to drop Spectrum in April!

We're also hiring a Senior Data Analyst, Healthcare Economics (same job family, different team). Please reach out if you're interested, or know someone who might be a fit! job-boards.greenhouse.io/garnerhealth/j…

We’re all obsessed with grand plans, but maybe the real secret is just letting your life unfold. In this salon, Henrik Karlsson and Alaka Halder dive into why chasing long-term goals is a trap and how controlled hallucinations shape our reality. If you're feeling stuck, this is for

C. S. Lewis’s advice to a young schoolgirl on how to become a better writer: