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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

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...

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

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...

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

if i can i at least say something that they might consider later on and be like oh yeah you know actually that guy was unreasonably nice to me but you know i i don't know if i i've gone back and forth with regards to like how much should i like lecture people on that they should be nice to other people you know i i think this is one of those things where you may have some predisposition and it can vary a little bit slightly and like you know i'm reminded of uh

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

if i can i at least say something that they might consider later on and be like oh yeah you know actually that guy was unreasonably nice to me but you know i i don't know if i i've gone back and forth with regards to like how much should i like lecture people on that they should be nice to other people you know i i think this is one of those things where you may have some predisposition and it can vary a little bit slightly and like you know i'm reminded of uh

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

if i can i at least say something that they might consider later on and be like oh yeah you know actually that guy was unreasonably nice to me but you know i i don't know if i i've gone back and forth with regards to like how much should i like lecture people on that they should be nice to other people you know i i think this is one of those things where you may have some predisposition and it can vary a little bit slightly and like you know i'm reminded of uh

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

When the Google co-founders were looking for... funding. And I think one of the investors said something like, oh, these guys are so arrogant and they're so just not socially nice. They're not kissing the ring. They're just kind of saying, oh, yeah, we want to organize the world's information and it's going to be great. And I'm paraphrasing what they said.

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

When the Google co-founders were looking for... funding. And I think one of the investors said something like, oh, these guys are so arrogant and they're so just not socially nice. They're not kissing the ring. They're just kind of saying, oh, yeah, we want to organize the world's information and it's going to be great. And I'm paraphrasing what they said.

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

When the Google co-founders were looking for... funding. And I think one of the investors said something like, oh, these guys are so arrogant and they're so just not socially nice. They're not kissing the ring. They're just kind of saying, oh, yeah, we want to organize the world's information and it's going to be great. And I'm paraphrasing what they said.

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

I don't think they said it's going to be great. It's like they just spoke in very clinical terms about precisely what they were going to do, which is like I would say it's a tell for the rocket scientists and the the people that are really serious about technical things and they want to make progress on things, they are thing-oriented people rather than people-oriented people.

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

I don't think they said it's going to be great. It's like they just spoke in very clinical terms about precisely what they were going to do, which is like I would say it's a tell for the rocket scientists and the the people that are really serious about technical things and they want to make progress on things, they are thing-oriented people rather than people-oriented people.

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

I don't think they said it's going to be great. It's like they just spoke in very clinical terms about precisely what they were going to do, which is like I would say it's a tell for the rocket scientists and the the people that are really serious about technical things and they want to make progress on things, they are thing-oriented people rather than people-oriented people.

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

So they don't... Often they're like neurodivergent, autistic, something like that. And so... I think... Okay, here's what I think. Nobody needs to do everything by themselves. And it's a fool's errand to insist that your cutting-edge scientist should also be a very smooth political operator. It's not realistic to expect someone to be both.

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

So they don't... Often they're like neurodivergent, autistic, something like that. And so... I think... Okay, here's what I think. Nobody needs to do everything by themselves. And it's a fool's errand to insist that your cutting-edge scientist should also be a very smooth political operator. It's not realistic to expect someone to be both.

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

So they don't... Often they're like neurodivergent, autistic, something like that. And so... I think... Okay, here's what I think. Nobody needs to do everything by themselves. And it's a fool's errand to insist that your cutting-edge scientist should also be a very smooth political operator. It's not realistic to expect someone to be both.

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

Although really exceptional people are, but realistically, most people are going to specialize at the thing that they're good at. But, like, so the cool thing is life is a multiplayer game, right? Like, people are kind of indoctrinated by school to think that, oh, you've got to do standardized tests. You've got to get good grades at everything.

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

Although really exceptional people are, but realistically, most people are going to specialize at the thing that they're good at. But, like, so the cool thing is life is a multiplayer game, right? Like, people are kind of indoctrinated by school to think that, oh, you've got to do standardized tests. You've got to get good grades at everything.

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

Although really exceptional people are, but realistically, most people are going to specialize at the thing that they're good at. But, like, so the cool thing is life is a multiplayer game, right? Like, people are kind of indoctrinated by school to think that, oh, you've got to do standardized tests. You've got to get good grades at everything.

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

And, you know, like, that kind of, like, super generalist perspective. Whereas, you know, there's a lot of things where, actually, you just need a friend. You just need, like, one friend who can cover you for that. You know, you just need, like, a handler or a manager, right? My wife, I would say my wife is smarter than me in terms of reading people.

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

And, you know, like, that kind of, like, super generalist perspective. Whereas, you know, there's a lot of things where, actually, you just need a friend. You just need, like, one friend who can cover you for that. You know, you just need, like, a handler or a manager, right? My wife, I would say my wife is smarter than me in terms of reading people.

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

And, you know, like, that kind of, like, super generalist perspective. Whereas, you know, there's a lot of things where, actually, you just need a friend. You just need, like, one friend who can cover you for that. You know, you just need, like, a handler or a manager, right? My wife, I would say my wife is smarter than me in terms of reading people.