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. Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub Check out Visa's books on his website: https://visakanv.com/ Check out Visa's Twitter: https://twitter.com/visakanv Check out Visa's YT channel:  @visakanv  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

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