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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 \

This article is an elaboration on this tweet: Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation and whatever old emotional meanings are getting activated by the current situation. Like dreaming you’re at your high school but it’s also on a boat somehow. What makes this metaphor really powerful is that, […]