description:
"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.
PODCAST: https://share.transistor.fm/s/59c670c5
Isabel: https://twitter.com/isabelunraveled
Michelle: https://twitter.com/mvarghoose
Move Better Sam: https://twitter.com/movebettersam
Links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/visakanv
Website: https://visakanv.com
⏳Timestamps
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 \"
