VisakanV — Imagination, Simplicity, Golden Ages | Ideamarket Podcast Ep 4
1h 40m | Aug 23, 2021Visakan 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
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