Visakan Veerasamy
Singaporean writer and author of FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD; blogs at visakanv.com about ambition, writing and thinking in public.
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Recommends Dune
The book is worth reading for its own sake, and it's particularly worth reading (in my opinion) to get a sense of how it has impacted so much of sci-fi and pop culture.
visakanv.com 6 Mar 2021
Liked Predatory Thinking
Predatory Thinking, by Dave Trott. I found this book in a bookshop at some point and I found it really compelling. It includes a story about neutrinos that I love.
visakanv.com 6 Mar 2021
Liked The Nasty Bits
The Nasty Bits, by Anthony Bourdain. I read this book not too long before Anthony Bourdain died. I remember really enjoying his voice, his style, his sense of flair.
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Liked Masters of Doom
I was really excited when a friend sent me this book, because it gets right into the details of the history and production of these games that meant so much to me.
visakanv.com 6 Mar 2021
Recommends Understanding Comics
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 it. It's very worth reading even if you don't really care all that much about comics.
visakanv.com 6 Mar 2021
Loved Confessions of an Advertising Man
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 great personality. Very spirited, opinionated guy with a great sense of occasion.
visakanv.com 6 Mar 2021
Loved Antifragile
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 found compelling. It made me rethink and reevaluate a lot of my life and gave me a useful frame for making sense of things with.
visakanv.com 6 Mar 2021
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- pinch of salt with this though, because “pretend this was a happy accident” is a strong strategic move. people are often more charmed by perceived effortlessness vs cold calculation, etc. see how people keep wanting iconic movie moments etc to be unscripted accidents 19 Oct 2026
- PSA: you can use toothpicks as wood filler. like if you have a screw that isn’t holding because there’s a bit of a gap between the screw and the hole it’s in, you can put a toothpick in it, break it off, then just squeeze the screw in with it. it somehow works 19 Oct 2026
- 2yo just asked why we don’t have vending machine hot air balloons. I said why not dream bigger? a convenience store in a blimp with delivery drones? 18 Oct 2026
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- I similarly saw people on IG reels warming up to AI when it was used to put the US Secretary of War in a dress. In both cases I’m doubtful that either piece of media single-handedly changed people’s stance. My bet is they used it elsewhere (eg google search) and found it useful 18 Oct 2026
- im rocking a baby to sleep, tell me about some random nonsense from your life 18 Oct 2026
- curious to look up the differences in how WWW was first described vs now “wide-area” → global “info retrieval” → info system (JavaScript didn’t arrive until a couple of years later) they tried to make “W3” happen but it didn’t catch on, WWW won hypermedia → media 17 Oct 2026
- @grok pick a number from 1 to 10 17 Oct 2026
- think of the average driver’s level of competence, texting and driving, etc next imagine them doing it in the air 10-20 years from now it will seem crazy we ever allowed humans to pilot these death machines around on solid ground 17 Oct 2026
- vgr had a pretty good explanation for this, but I’ve forgotten precisely what he wrote lol. my attempt to restate it would be something like… we’re basically all devoting a lot of time and energy to “reading the room”. and the room is an infinitely dynamic kaleidoscope. 16 Oct 2026
- many great novelists straddled different social contexts. If you immersed yourself in their books early, you might assume that everyone appreciates this. then you learn that most people don’t think past their context. then you realize you were making the same error yourself!! 16 Oct 2026
- the staff at my kid’s preschool are some of the cheeriest people I’ve ever met. the receptionist, the security guard, the cleaners, they’re all awash in hundreds of smiles and giggles and high-fives and buh-byes every day 16 Oct 2026
- since moving back to a neighborhood <60mins from where I grew up, I’ve bumped into like 3 different people from my childhood who all also have kids now. it’s so trippy and nice 15 Oct 2026
- saw the phrase “good conditions for development” (for personal growth/learning) and it got me thinking. what comes to mind for you? what was particular about the conditions the last time you experienced significant personal development or growth? 15 Oct 2026
- seems like half the people in the replies are excited about this and the other half are ball-knowers who know there’s already been a simpler solution the whole time many such cases? what else is like this? 14 Oct 2026
- piggybacking off this just to re-share that ancient Egyptians were goated storytellers actually, see next tweet 12 Oct 2026
- what about now? 11 Oct 2026
- rockets and maize silos are cylindrical for the same reasons 11 Oct 2026
- this is the thing that’s hard to explain to people who don’t get it, and doesn’t need explaining to those who do. you don’t need to make arrangements, you don’t need to formally negotiate or define a relationship; you just show up enough and you develop shared understandings 10 Oct 2026
- you bail on the bailey because it’s hard to defend 9 Oct 2026
- the problem isn’t actually their physical appearance; it’s that they’re too expressive for the role. the problem is that actors are generally supposed to be expressive. if you used AI to overlay the performances with Sam and Caroline’s actual faces, they’d seem too pretty too! 9 Oct 2026
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