April 20, 2023

Seeding a New Golden Age - Visakan Veerasamy

1 hour 49 minutes

Visakan Veerasamy is a kindred spirit who is on mission is to build the greatest social graph of friendly, ambitious nerds that the world has ever seen. He's been studying the history of how great ideas come into being, how scenes are born and maintained, and is focused on using the knowledge he's gleaned from the exploration to bring together people ho are working on a new golden age for humanity. We talk about the attention economy, the art of becoming someone, and the version of localism that's possible in an increasingly global world.

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Further reading (affiliate links):

Tribe, Sebastian Junger - https://amzn.to/3UASMUd

The Courage to be Disliked, Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga - https://amzn.to/3MLCJkf

The User Illusion, Tor Norretranders - https://amzn.to/43BIozn

(00:00:00) Go!

(00:02:56) The mystic and the psychotic

(00:13:26) escaping obsolescence

(00:27:55) How change happens

(00:34:20) Makings of a golden age

(00:44:28) Choosing a future

(00:51:54) Critical Mass

(01:02:58) Attention to attention

(01:19:49) Rat park

(01:31:42) What success looks like

(01:40:46) Failure modes

#friendlyambitiousnerd #goldenage #renaissance

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