Visakan Veerasamy
Person on 4 sites
Visakan Veerasamy writes about friendship, ambition and self-knowledge at visakanv.com and in his Substack, Frame Studies.
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3 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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x.com: @visakanv (opens x.com)
“here’s what I think might be the essential challenge of parenting: your children are born not as your peers, but as your dependents. if you treat them like your peers when they’re too young, it’s unfair to them. but if…”
- Blog: @visakanv's blog (opens visakanv.com)
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x.com: @visakanv (opens x.com)
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21 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Reducing reliance on a cope is easier if one defines a desired outcome to inhabit and focuses on that. (opens korrents.com)
“trying to reduce reliance on a cope (cigarettes, screentime, etc) is very difficult. it gets much easier if you define an outcome that you'd like to inhabit, and focus on that.”
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People often overfixate on reducing one thing at the expense of increasing another. (opens korrents.com)
“it's very rare that you actually need to have a focus on reducing X in order to increase Y. i'd go so far as to say that people often overfixate on reducing X *at the expense of increasing Y*.”
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The problem with most people is not what they are doing wrong, but what they are not doing right. (opens korrents.com)
“imho, generally speaking, the problem with most people isn't what they're doing wrong, but what they're not doing right”
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Reducing reliance on a cope is easier if one defines a desired outcome to inhabit and focuses on that. (opens korrents.com)
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7 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Antifragile (opens rcmnd.app)
“I remember Antifragile blowing my mind several times when I first read it. It didn't exactly have anything dramatically new to say that I hadn't heard before in some way, but it brought together things in a way that I…”
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Confessions of an Advertising Man (opens rcmnd.app)
“I can't remember when exactly I started looking into David Ogilvy – or where I got this book, probably from a secondhand bookstore somewhere – but once I started reading it I couldn't put it down. Ogilvy had such a…”
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Understanding Comics (opens rcmnd.app)
“Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud: I believe I first saw this book being recommended highly by Bret Victor aka worrydream. I think I then encountered a few screenshots of it on the Internet that made me really like…”
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Antifragile (opens rcmnd.app)