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#129 Friendly Ambitious Nerd World-Building - Visakan Veerasamy on Long-Orbit Friendships, Preemptive Defensiveness, "Hot Streaks," Writing A Book, Making $1000 for one copy & Negative Comments

· 2 min read
  • 0:00 – Video intro
  • 0:39 – Introduction
  • 1:21 – Avoiding seeing more of the things Visakan’s already familiar with
  • 2:55 – Long orbit friendships
  • 6:09 – Watching other pathless pathers develop
  • 8:07 – Can rooting for people be learned?
  • 9:28 – Preemptive defensiveness vs live and let live
  • 13:30 – Agreeing with the letter but not the spirit
  • 14:46 – The conformist culture of the US
  • 16:30 – Having a positive vision vs just being against something
  • 20:41 – Posting trajectories, long-term engagement
  • 29:22 – Trying to replace income, burnout, and learning patience
  • 33:37 – Engaging online
  • 37:07 – Micro existential crises
  • 40:53 – How is Visakan making money these days?
  • 43:01 – Learning to accept help from other people
  • 45:17 – Charging based on value, not on prestige
  • 47:27 – “A homeostatic impulse” to always make the same amount of money, limiting beliefs
  • 53:06 – Pricing books and managing your expectations
  • 59:03 – How did it feel to get $1000 USD for a book?
  • 1:01:32 – People Visakan is following, shoutouts
  • 1:06:49 – Specialisation in the digital space, finding synergies
  • 1:12:03 – How to decide what’s valuable spending time on, the long-term mindset
  • 1:14:50 – Understanding the scale of the Internet and having low expectations
  • 1:21:32 – Persistence and heart are all you need
  • 1:27:26 – The Internet as a spiritual practice - dealing with negative comments
  • 1:35:13 – Thanks and Goodbyes

Visakan Veerasamy is an internet creator and writer, he is passionate about the future of the internet, ideas, and how people can be bolder on their creative journeys. 

His mission is to build the greatest social graph of friendly, ambitious nerds that the world has ever seen.

This is our second conversation and dives much more into his current work and how he thinks about the internet.

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