The Danny Miranda Podcast

#274: Visakan Veerasamy – Online Fame, Greatness, & Inner Newsfeed

Nov 11, 2022

01:53:36

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How to Generate Randomness

01:20

Who Do I Want in My Life?

01:20

Tweeting in Polarized Ways Is a Healthy Practice

03:01

I Love Twitter Yeah Yeah Yeah I Like It

04:41

Introduction

2min

What Did I Learn About Myself When I Quit Smoking?

3min

I Don't Buy Into School and Workaholism

5min

I'm Still Recovering From a Post-Book Publishing Burnout

4min

Getting a Fitness Coach Online Is a Good Idea

5min

The Greatest Thing About Twitter Is It Allows for a Very High Rate of Footprints

2min

Tweeting Is a Punch in the Face

5min

The Paradox of Being Great

4min

How to Manage an Extremely Online Space

4min

10.

How Do You Feel When People Misunderstood You?

3min

11.

What Is a Grifter?

4min

12.

The Charge of Being a Narcissist

2min

13.

The Things You Shouldn't Be Doing Right Now

4min

14.

The Best Ideas Come as Jokes

4min

15.

You're in a Creative Rut Right Now, You've Created Things That Are Helping People Right Now

3min

16.

Who Do I Want in My Life Is a Useful Framing

2min

17.

I've Never Thought About People of the Past

3min

18.

I Believe Like the Animal Whisper and the Evolution of Language

5min

19.

How to Make the World a More Loving and Compassionate Place

3min

20.

How Do You Figure Out What You Want in Life?

3min

21.

How Do I Block Myself?

2min

22.

I Love Twitter Yeah Yeah Yeah I Like It

5min

23.

Tweeting in Polarized Ways Is a Healthy Practice

3min

24.

Relationships With Mentors and Mentors

3min

25.

Relationships Are So Much Stronger Than Like Casual Happenstance Kind of Friendships

3min

26.

How to Get Away From the Automatic Thing

2min

27.

The Labyrinth

4min

28.

Redeeming Forgiveness

4min

29.

How Did You Confront Why Were You Sleeping?

6min

30.

Women and Men in the Broader Gender Discourse

3min

31.

How Much Should a Parent Communicate Their Emotional State to Their Kids?

3min

32.

Is There a Challenge You Could Leave People With?

5min

Visakan Veerasamy is a writer. He describes himself as a “friendly, ambitious nerd.” In this wide-ranging conversation, you’ll find out why. We discussed lessons from tweeting 212,000 times, how to make the world a more loving place, why you should consult your inner newsfeed, and how writing a book helped him evolve.

(0:00) Lesson From COVID

(5:43) Thoughts On Work

(15:19) Coaching

(20:03) Tweeting

(26:37) Greatness

(29:38) Online Fame

(38:12) What Bothers Visa?

(46:03) Consult Inner Newsfeed

(49:00) Creativity

(53:03) Ruts

(58:31) Similarities of Humans

(1:07:39) Loving World