Let’s Get Meta: A Conversation About Conversations

Fellow Interintellect Vidhika Bansal invites you to chat about the art and science of conversation — across mediums, cultures, and contexts Conversations happen on so many different continuums: from eagerly anticipated ones to outright dreaded ones, synchronous to asynchronous, planned to impromptu, familiar to foreign, brief to lengthy, one-on-one to in groups, regular to sporadic,…

Running on Empty: Exploring Our Relationship with Burnout

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In this salon, Interintellects Vidhika Bansal and Kushaan Shah ask: what does the spectrum of burnout look like?  Most of us have experienced some form of burnout before. Hell, you might even be feeling it at this particular moment. Whether it’s through work, daily content creation on Twitter, keeping up with dating apps, parenting through a pandemic, or…

Are Apps Making Us Better Or Worse?

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Interintellects Vidhika Bansal and Rosano invite you to reflect on the pivotal role technology plays in our lives, the trade-offs of its everpresence, and finding balance in the digital world. — Post-salon update: read takeaways from our conversation. — Nowadays, so many goods, services, and experiences are just a tap or click away. Need a…

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The Ghosts of Friendships Past

"Friendship plants itself as a small unobtrusive seed; over time, it grows thick roots that wrap around your heart. When a love affair ends, the tree is torn out quickly, the operation painful but clean. Friendship withers quietly, there is always hope of revival. Only after time has passed do you recognise that it is…

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Amsterdam IRL Hangout ✨

Amsterdam

Join Interintellect host and fellow Vidhika Bansal for a cozy, casual afternoon hangout while she's visiting Amsterdam. Can't wait to see you! 💛 We'll meet within a 1-mile radius of De 9 Straatjes. Exact location will be shared with those who RSVP (so don't forget to RSVP!). *** 🗓 ii Calendar 📋 Code of Conduct

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I’ll Be There For You: Exploring the Ingredients of Friendship

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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” (Anaïs Nin)   Join Interintellect fellow Vidhika Bansal for the first in a series of salons about adult friendship. What are the ingredients of friendship? How can…

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The Trials and Triumphs of Making Friends as an Adult

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Join fellow Interintellect (and Interintellect fellow) Vidhika Bansal in this salon exploring the joys, challenges, and how-tos of making friends as an adult. "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival." (C. S. Lewis)   Friendship is a beautiful thing:…

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Maintaining and Deepening Our Friendships

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Join fellow Interintellect Vidhika Bansal for a discussion about how we can maintain and deepen our friendships amid the seasons and stresses of everyday life. Balancing our ever-evolving priorities and responsibilities with our desire for lasting friendships can be a lot to manage. How can we find the time, energy, and grace to maintain — and…

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