Valet Amandum Podcast

Yudhistira Ghifari Adlani

Welcome to VA Podcast, a place where I get to discuss with people, on how to live a life that is worth loving.

  1. 09/17/2020

    Worthy Discussion #9 with Ziyan Muhammad

    Hello Worthy Lovers, welcome to the Valet Amandum Podcast. A show where we talk about how to live a life that is worth loving. In today's episode, we have Ziyan Muhammad. He's a biomedical engineering student at Universitas Indonesia. He's currently researching about 3D-printed-Ankle Foot Orthosis for improving the walkability of people with disabilities at LimbCareCenter: Orthotics and Prosthetics. Not only an amazing student, but he's also participating in his faculty's organization and BEM UI in 2019. He's part of PIM, a department that runs on helping start-up grow in campus settings. Besides academics and organization, his achievement in competitions is also worth noticing. He has won 12 events, including Bios Hackathon, Jackbee Hackathon, and a vlogging competition. Lastly, he's a microblogger on Instagram that talks about how to learn anything faster, disadvantage factors in people's lives, and many more. Please welcome, Ziyan Muhammad. Timestamp: (02:03) Ended up in BEM UI. (06:02) Fungsi Departemen PIM. (07.05) Challenges in Innovation. (09:07) Perbedaan budaya di Departemen PIM. (10:01) The most valuable lesson in an organization. (11:35) Alasan masuk UI dan biomedical engineering. (13:36) Ekspektasi sebelum dan sesudah masuk biomedical engineering. (17:56) Researching about 3D-printed-Ankle Foot. (20:13) The drive for service. (23:10) The future of biomedical engineering in Indonesia. (26:51) Urgensi buat bikin alat sendiri. (28:26) Ziyan's take on competitions. (33:03) My take on competitions. (37:16) Feeling envy for other people and dealing with it. (39:52) Definition of Hackathon. (42:10) Proses latihan buat Hackathon. (43:50) What is Timo? (48:00) Jackbee hackathon. (53:12) My take on the hackathon. (53:42) Vlogging and meeting Ridwan Kamil. (57:42) What's Ridwan Kamil like in real life? (58:35) The biggest lesson in winning all those competitions. (01:01:33) Why make content? (01:06:07) Learning Kolbe Styles in Ziyan's content. (01:07:00) Ziyan's role model in content creating. (01:09:35) My role model in content creating. (01:13:15) Acknowledging Ziyan. (01:17:00) Ziyan's definition of a life that is worth loving.

    1h 21m
  2. 09/10/2020

    Controversies: Truth, Religion and Art

    Hello Worthy Lovers, welcome back to Valet Amandum Podcast with your host Yega. In today's episode, Bahres returns to talk about controversial views and how conversations allow for people to talk about them. We also talk about Skin in The Game and First Principle Reasoning. I hope you guys enjoy this episode! Timestamp: (01:30) Risk in making controversial ideas. (02:15) Virtue is risk-taking. (04:28) What Bahres tries to do with his song. (11:50) Be careful about discussing ideal. (13:35) The problem with certain kinds of intellectuals. (21:29) The pursuit of trying to solve the problem with consciousness. (26:13) Perfecting the ways to find the truth, not the truth itself. (27:15) The problem lies in the interpretation. (29:05) We might never find the answer, but we can always try. (30:15) Talking about the stories about the house of wisdom. (32:50) First Principle Reasoning in Islam. (34:53) Write a book when you disagree with someone. (37:00) The fact that we're afraid to find the Truth in other ways. (40:54) Stories about perfection and progress. (44:32) The idea of perfection is an imperfect one. (49:12) Discussing religion critically counts as taboo. (50:07) Finding intellectuals in Indonesia. (Returning to the idea in our first podcast). (52:41) Researching Dukun in Indonesia. (56:31) The best part of Bahres' last song. (59:41) An explanation of satire. (01:00:21) An explanation of meta-satire. (01:02:40) Playing the game or talking about it. (01:05:15) Being critical of your own views. (01:07:11) The necessity of art. (01:08:25) Extending the notion of yourself. (01:09:15) The reason I don't like ideologues. (01:11:32) Two outcomes when you expose your ideas. (01:12:45) Change is painful. (01:17:58) Opening your eyes to places that you don't want to visit. (01:19:21) Move then adjust your goals. (01:22:30) Skin in The Game balances First Principle Reasoning. (01:25:35) Being called out by Nassim Taleb's book. (01:33:11) Quote by Anton Ego from Ratatouille. (01:38:00) How do we define a great artist? (01:38:00) Express? Impress? Both? (01:40:30) Art that works. (01:42:15) The necessary capabilities in expressing and impressing. (01:44:48) The 3rd argument about art. (01:47:23) Skillset about expressing can impress someone. (01:50:08) The market aspect of art. (01:53:40) The notion of high culture and low culture. (01:56:13) The 4th argument about art. (02:02:42) Experts need skin in the game.

    2h 7m

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