Visakan Veerasamy

Even if you're like Beyonce or Taylor Swift and you have a whole team of people managing your operation, you still at the top have to judge, do I want to have this pyrotechnics? Do I want to have this part of the show or whatever? People offer you ideas, but you have to decide by your feeling what's right or wrong. There's no escaping that. And it's the same for rest and it's the same for...

If you've been doing things for some time and it's not working out, you have to sit back and feel it. And it's so funny to talk about it because I think people who hear it will be like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. But it's non-trivial. It's kind of tricky. I guess because you can get lost in the weeds so easily. So you kind of want to practice... having time away from the thing.

If you've been doing things for some time and it's not working out, you have to sit back and feel it. And it's so funny to talk about it because I think people who hear it will be like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. But it's non-trivial. It's kind of tricky. I guess because you can get lost in the weeds so easily. So you kind of want to practice... having time away from the thing.

If you've been doing things for some time and it's not working out, you have to sit back and feel it. And it's so funny to talk about it because I think people who hear it will be like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. But it's non-trivial. It's kind of tricky. I guess because you can get lost in the weeds so easily. So you kind of want to practice... having time away from the thing.

And like, I think Netflix has like, in their software department or something, they had this thing called Chaos Monkeys where they would basically program things to break randomly so that they would be like, oh no, if this breaks, we got to do that thing. And it challenged them to make things more robust. And yes, I mean, and life is like that, right?

And like, I think Netflix has like, in their software department or something, they had this thing called Chaos Monkeys where they would basically program things to break randomly so that they would be like, oh no, if this breaks, we got to do that thing. And it challenged them to make things more robust. And yes, I mean, and life is like that, right?

And like, I think Netflix has like, in their software department or something, they had this thing called Chaos Monkeys where they would basically program things to break randomly so that they would be like, oh no, if this breaks, we got to do that thing. And it challenged them to make things more robust. And yes, I mean, and life is like that, right?

Like, whatever you're doing, things are going to surprise you and blindside you and so on. So, okay, if you're a person trying to be serious and overwhelmed...

Like, whatever you're doing, things are going to surprise you and blindside you and so on. So, okay, if you're a person trying to be serious and overwhelmed...

Like, whatever you're doing, things are going to surprise you and blindside you and so on. So, okay, if you're a person trying to be serious and overwhelmed...

Yeah, that's very difficult. So this is why my first book is titled Friendly Ambitious Nerd because there are three variables. And also a lot of successful people tend to be ambitious nerds. And if they're not friendly, and when I say friendly, you know, it's like sensitive to other people.

Yeah, that's very difficult. So this is why my first book is titled Friendly Ambitious Nerd because there are three variables. And also a lot of successful people tend to be ambitious nerds. And if they're not friendly, and when I say friendly, you know, it's like sensitive to other people.

Yeah, that's very difficult. So this is why my first book is titled Friendly Ambitious Nerd because there are three variables. And also a lot of successful people tend to be ambitious nerds. And if they're not friendly, and when I say friendly, you know, it's like sensitive to other people.

This is tough because the people who are really at the absolute cutting edge, most exceptional, they tend to be uncompromising. They tend to be, you know, just very intense characters who...

This is tough because the people who are really at the absolute cutting edge, most exceptional, they tend to be uncompromising. They tend to be, you know, just very intense characters who...

This is tough because the people who are really at the absolute cutting edge, most exceptional, they tend to be uncompromising. They tend to be, you know, just very intense characters who...

they see it as their point of view is correct because they they have put in so much work into it and so it's like they don't suffer fools right and yeah so it's like how much do you suffer fools is basically the question or like how do you do it in a way that is well each person has to decide for themselves based on their values how kind they want to be to people who can do nothing for them or you know are even in like

they see it as their point of view is correct because they they have put in so much work into it and so it's like they don't suffer fools right and yeah so it's like how much do you suffer fools is basically the question or like how do you do it in a way that is well each person has to decide for themselves based on their values how kind they want to be to people who can do nothing for them or you know are even in like

they see it as their point of view is correct because they they have put in so much work into it and so it's like they don't suffer fools right and yeah so it's like how much do you suffer fools is basically the question or like how do you do it in a way that is well each person has to decide for themselves based on their values how kind they want to be to people who can do nothing for them or you know are even in like

interrupting their process. And I'm kind of... I remember when I was a kid and I felt like an idiot and I felt like no one was looking out for me and I had no mentors or no whatever. And I really just needed someone to kind of show me around and help me out. So I'm kind of biased towards when I see someone struggling or I see someone lashing out or being whatever, I try to... Can I at least...