76 - Visakan Veerasamy - A Friendly Ambitious Nerd

You can find Visa’s book here:
https://gumroad.com/l/friendlynerdbook

Subscribe to Visa’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/visa

Follow Visa on Twitter @visakanv

Further References
The wisdom of crowds concept is well described in Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner’s Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (2015)

See @naval’s Twitter account, whose approach I compare with Visakan’s

Sonke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes (2017)

The Karate Kid (1984); Cobra Kai (2018—)

Timestamps
03:18 Growing up online: how to use social media constructively to make friends and be a good member of the online community; the value of public comment spaces; the importance of scenes.
31:18 Why we no longer fear strangers in the internet age; the wisdom of crowds; public and private spaces and liminal spaces and the opportunities they bring.
47:22 Parasocial relationships; why Visakan’s approach brings him fans.
51:08 Social dark matter
57:18 What it means to be ambitious, the opportunities and dangers of idealism, the importance of public accountability
01:10:41 Getting addicted to interim stages
01:16:57 Note taking, tips for the writing process
01:33:15 Using statistical understanding to improve your marriage
01:38:52 What does mean to be a nerd? The value of pure curiosity.