Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv on Twitter) finds Friendly Ambitious Nerds on the internet and introduces them to each other, with the goal of reverse-engineering a cultural and intellectual Golden Age. He originally gained Twitter fame through his prolific use of threading to track and share his knowledge explorations over the years. 

In this episode:

(00:00) — Episode Starts

(02:22) — “By doing something really well, you make it prestigious”

(8:07) — “Every social game has proof-of-work in it”

(10:31) — “It’s funny how simple everything is”

(20:39) — “We valorize geniuses, to everyone’s detriment”

(32:28)— Breaking paradigms

(42:03) — Social media and internet celebrities as leaders of nations

(51:17) — "There's a thousand Lennons and a thousand McCartneys and they don't know each other"

(59:09) — "It puts all leadership to shame"

(1:05:23) — "Thinking of knowledge as a risk management problem"

(1:27:14) — "People have not woken up to what we can do with social media"

EPISODE LINKS:

• VisakanV on Twitter
• VisakanV on YouTube
• VisakanV's Website
• VisakanV's Books
• Cracked effort-shock blog post
• Shl0ms art
• Pericles funeral oration

IDEAMARKET LINKS

• Ideamarket Website
• Ideamarket on Twitter
• Ideamarket Discord
• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify

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