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Podcast: Audience of One
Episode: #015 - Visakan Veerasamy on Scenes, Deviants, Introspection, & Writing
Description: Visakan Veerasamy (AKA Visa) is a writer, both on Twitter and through his books Friendly Ambitious Nerds and Introspect — both of which I highly recommend. We talk about writing; networks, scenes, and subcultures; deviants and outliers; being introspective; and more.
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(00:42) Visa's background
(05:45) Online networks need a cultural paradigm shift to realize its true potential
(12:25) We need clusters of independent yet connected communities encouraging pro-social behaviors
(18:16) Change comes from small, bottoms-up movements
(26:25) The next round of recruiters for the scene
(29:04) Historical scenes & outliers, and how to manufacture more of them
(34:44) Being authentic & informal, & attracting intrinsically motivated people
(43:03) The life...