Friendship & Learning: Interintellect Fellows Vidhika Bansal and Zelda Poem
Aug 4, 2023
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Host Linus Lu chats with Vidhika Bansal and Zelda Poem, two Interintellect fellows. They discuss the significance of friendship and creating safe spaces for vulnerability and connection. The speakers reflect on participating in conversations, maintaining friendships, and evaluating worth in friendship. They also mention upcoming salons on young hackers, founders, and making friends as an adult.
Alternative education paths are important for young founders and hackers to find unconventional paths.
Creating safe spaces for conversations about friendship and cultivating meaningful connections is crucial for individuals navigating adulthood.
Deep dives
Zoda's Fellowship: Inspiring Young Founders and Hackers
Zoda's fellowship aims to inspire young founders and hackers to find their own original and unconventional paths. Through her podcast, she shares stories of hackers, entrepreneurs, artists, and therapists, creating safe spaces for young founders to explore their social lives and emotions.
Vidika's Fellowship: Exploring Friendship as a Powerful Relationship
Vidika's fellowship focuses on friendship as one of the most powerful and meaningful relationships. She delves into the topic by examining academic perspectives and personal experiences. Vidika aims to create conversations about the different phases of friendship, finding and discerning suitable friends, making friends as an adult, maintaining and deepening friendships, and even navigating the endings of friendships.
The Overlaps in Their Work and Shared Goals
Zoda and Vidika discover the overlaps in their work and share a common goal of creating safe spaces for intimacy and connection. They both emphasize the need to normalize conversations about friendship and create environments that can hold the full human experience. They strive to cultivate presence, vulnerability, and meaningful connections, catering to the specific needs of their communities, whether it's young founders and hackers or individuals navigating adulthood.
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: