The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd Trailer Bonus Episode 129 Season 1

#129 Friendly Ambitious Nerd World-Building - Visakan Veerasamy on Long-Orbit Friendships, Preemptive Defensiveness, "Hot Streaks," Writing A Book, Making $1000 for one copy & Negative Comments

#129 Friendly Ambitious Nerd World-Building - Visakan Veerasamy on Long-Orbit Friendships, Preemptive Defensiveness, "Hot Streaks," Writing A Book, Making $1000 for one copy & Negative Comments#129 Friendly Ambitious Nerd World-Building - Visakan Veerasamy on Long-Orbit Friendships, Preemptive Defensiveness, "Hot Streaks," Writing A Book, Making $1000 for one copy & Negative Comments

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Visakan Veerasamy is an internet creator and writer, he is passionate about the future of the internet, ideas, and how people can be bolder on their creative journeys. 

His mission is to build the greatest social graph of friendly, ambitious nerds that the world has ever seen.

This is our second conversation and dives much more into his current work and how he thinks about the internet.

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(0:00) Audio intro
(2:27) Long-orbit friendships
(7:34) Can rooting for people be learned?
(8:54) Preemptive defensiveness vs live and let live
(12:55) Agreeing with the letter but not the spirit
(14:11) The conformist culture of the US
(15:53) Having a positive vision vs just being against something
(20:04) Posting trajectories, long-term engagement
(28:38) Trying to replace income, burnout, and learning patience
(36:22) Micro-existential crises
(40:07) How is Visakan making money these days?
(44:31) Charging based on value, not on prestige
(46:41) "A homeostatic impulse" to always make the same amount of money, limiting beliefs
(52:19) Pricing books and managing your expectations
(58:10) How did it feel to get $1000 for a book?
(1:00:36) People Visakan is following, shoutouts
(1:13:52) Understanding the scale of the Internet and having low expectations
(1:20:31) Persistence and heart is all you need
(1:26:25) The Internet as a spiritual practice - dealing with negative comments

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What is The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd?

The Pathless Path is hosted by Paul Millerd - a writer, creator, and consultant. He has conversations with freelancers, self-employed entrepreneurs, creators, and vagabonds who share their perspectives on their relationship with work, burnout, bootstrapping, indie hacking, remote work, reinvention, creativity, sabbaticals, leisure, self-employment, unconventional living, and digital nomadism. Past guests include Ali Abdaal, Russ Roberts, Kevin Kelly, Khe Hy, David Senra, Derek Sivers, Joe Hudson, Luke Burgis, Ben Hunt, Dan Vassallo, Steph Smith, Alex Pang, Visakan Veerasamy, Michael Ashcroft, Kyla Scalon, Trung Phan, Justin Welch, and more.