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Visakan Veerasamy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
576 total appearances

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Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

for your idiosyncratic personal flavor and style and essence like you wouldn't want to go around disturbing like annoying people for engagement right like you just like again we live one short life and like you want to look back and be like oh yeah I really you know critiqued well Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

for your idiosyncratic personal flavor and style and essence like you wouldn't want to go around disturbing like annoying people for engagement right like you just like again we live one short life and like you want to look back and be like oh yeah I really you know critiqued well Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

There's, there's, there's some contexts in which that's true, but like, if you're doing it like compulsively, you wake up in the morning, you scroll your feed and you look for someone to be mean to like, uh, you can do better. You can do better than that. That's my thing. Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

There's, there's, there's some contexts in which that's true, but like, if you're doing it like compulsively, you wake up in the morning, you scroll your feed and you look for someone to be mean to like, uh, you can do better. You can do better than that. That's my thing. Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

There's, there's, there's some contexts in which that's true, but like, if you're doing it like compulsively, you wake up in the morning, you scroll your feed and you look for someone to be mean to like, uh, you can do better. You can do better than that. That's my thing. Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

This actually ties back to what we were talking about earlier about when I was bringing up Christopher Alexander and stuff. You have to feel. Feeling is the highest bandwidth thing that a person is capable of, I think. I love this. There's this book called The User Illusion by Thor Noritranders. He's a Danish physicist.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

This actually ties back to what we were talking about earlier about when I was bringing up Christopher Alexander and stuff. You have to feel. Feeling is the highest bandwidth thing that a person is capable of, I think. I love this. There's this book called The User Illusion by Thor Noritranders. He's a Danish physicist.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

This actually ties back to what we were talking about earlier about when I was bringing up Christopher Alexander and stuff. You have to feel. Feeling is the highest bandwidth thing that a person is capable of, I think. I love this. There's this book called The User Illusion by Thor Noritranders. He's a Danish physicist.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

It's not a very popular book because it was written in Danish originally, but he has all these brilliant bits about consciousness. And one of the things he says is that the bandwidth of feeling is more than the bandwidth of knowledge, right? I'm paraphrasing. I don't know what exactly he said now. And the bandwidth of knowledge is more than the bandwidth of communication.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

It's not a very popular book because it was written in Danish originally, but he has all these brilliant bits about consciousness. And one of the things he says is that the bandwidth of feeling is more than the bandwidth of knowledge, right? I'm paraphrasing. I don't know what exactly he said now. And the bandwidth of knowledge is more than the bandwidth of communication.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

It's not a very popular book because it was written in Danish originally, but he has all these brilliant bits about consciousness. And one of the things he says is that the bandwidth of feeling is more than the bandwidth of knowledge, right? I'm paraphrasing. I don't know what exactly he said now. And the bandwidth of knowledge is more than the bandwidth of communication.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

So we feel more than we know, and we know more than we can say. And thinking is somewhere in the know-to-say aspect. So what that... if you sit with that and you really feel it, what do you realize is that you feel more than you can say. You feel more than you, like what you think about something and what you feel about something. The feeling is much more nuanced.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

So we feel more than we know, and we know more than we can say. And thinking is somewhere in the know-to-say aspect. So what that... if you sit with that and you really feel it, what do you realize is that you feel more than you can say. You feel more than you, like what you think about something and what you feel about something. The feeling is much more nuanced.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

So we feel more than we know, and we know more than we can say. And thinking is somewhere in the know-to-say aspect. So what that... if you sit with that and you really feel it, what do you realize is that you feel more than you can say. You feel more than you, like what you think about something and what you feel about something. The feeling is much more nuanced.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

The feeling is much more, and think about, you know, um,

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

The feeling is much more, and think about, you know, um,

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

The feeling is much more, and think about, you know, um,

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

intuition right like so one of the ways I think about intuition is that it's like you have a felt understanding of all of the ecology of relationships of things around you one of my favorite stories is I think one of Malcolm Gladwell's books he talks about a fireman who goes to a fire like a senior fireman and like all the firemen are trying to work on the fire and he's just standing there and he's like

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

intuition right like so one of the ways I think about intuition is that it's like you have a felt understanding of all of the ecology of relationships of things around you one of my favorite stories is I think one of Malcolm Gladwell's books he talks about a fireman who goes to a fire like a senior fireman and like all the firemen are trying to work on the fire and he's just standing there and he's like

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

intuition right like so one of the ways I think about intuition is that it's like you have a felt understanding of all of the ecology of relationships of things around you one of my favorite stories is I think one of Malcolm Gladwell's books he talks about a fireman who goes to a fire like a senior fireman and like all the firemen are trying to work on the fire and he's just standing there and he's like