This page is meant to be a list of all of the podcasts that I have been on. I also have a Spotify playlist with most of these. And a Twitter thread.
1. Other Life with @jmurphy – pros & cons of monetizing, how/when to do it, having IRL meetups w/ internet ppl, & the difficulties of assessing influence/fame in today’s media landscape. [WATCH: Video link – starts at ~11m, lasts 1hr+]
2. Venture Stories with @eriktorenberg – we talked a lot about friendships in the digital age, about managing disagreements, project management and marriage [LISTEN: Apple / Google / Spreaker / Soundcloud / Stitcher – ~1hr]
3. Crazy Wisdom with @StewartalsopIII – talked about upcoming culture wars and making friends [LISTEN: PlinkHQ ~1hr]
4. Talk of Today with @samhbarton – talked about aesthetics, turning up the voltage [WATCH: YouTube 1hr 47m]
5. @Documental_ with Alejandro – talked about creative writing [LISTEN: audio link – ~21m]
6. Reimagine Work podcast with Paul Millerd – talked about being nourishing, making friends, having faith [LIVE: Visakan Veerasamy On The Curious Humans Of Twitter & Creating His Own Work]
7. Discussing Friendly Ambitious Nerd with Andrea, She Wonders Why [1hr 14m] [WATCH: YouTube] [ListenNotes] – we talk about my youtube channel, how I thought about writing my ebook, marriage, relationships and how everything is connected…
8. Taking Twitter Seriously with Visakan Veerasamy | PG Radio ep. 69 – Prakhar Gupta – 95 minutes [WATCH: youtube] – we talk about golden ages, human excellence, finding good people, making friends
9. Interintellect Hostcast Ep.1: With Anna Gát and Visakan Veerasamy – How the ii Started [LISTEN: youtube] ~1hr
10. Means of Creation with Nathan and Li – In this interview, we talk to Visakan about: His journey to being a creator /How he conceptualized his target audience — the “friendly ambitious nerd” / What software tools he uses / How he monetizes, and why / His take on Substack, Pateron, Gumroad, Youtube and eBooks vs Courses
11. The Breakup With Your Bullsh*t podcast with Michelle Akin – 93 minutes – [WATCH: youtube] – talked about creating community, making art, the creative process
12. Two for Tea with Iona Italia – about Friendly Ambitious Nerd [LISTEN: Soundcloud, Patreon]
13. Creativity Hangups with Asad Badruddin – 99 minutes – we talked about being prolific. [LISTEN: anchor.fm] We are all westerners now
14. Making Friends Like Our Lives Depend on It (Because It Does), with The Stoa (1hr+, WATCH: YouTube)
15. Philosophers Playing Flight Simulator with Michael Curzi – 190 minutes [WATCH: youtube] Jordan Peterson, “Dark Visa”
16. A Becoming Creature podcast with @becomingcritter – 1.5hrs [LISTEN: podbay.fm, Apple Podcasts] “On this episode, my guest @visakanv weaves together some absolutely beautiful responses What have Visa’s spiritual experiences been like? What is the biggest difficulty in Visa’s life right now? Magic? Attention? Religion? Learning? Love?” — @becomingcritter
17. Penguin Latte podcast with @paul_lecrone – 2.5hrs [LISTEN: Spotify, Apple, WATCH: YouTube]
18. robot friends with @eigenrobot – 1 hr [LISTEN: Soundcloud] — “this was maybe the most dynamic conversation I’ve cut so far. much of this was because visa is an energetic and electric speaker. but, a second reason is that I suspect there is a secret universal brotherhood of people who read a Lot of fiction as kids. much of our conversation was simply about fiction and narrative, and how it serves perhaps as a framework for how people live, and view morality, and how societies succeed or fail; all of this hinging on fictional characters naturally.” – @eigenrobot
19. Drinking with Visionaries, with @thetracebrady 1 hr 20 mins [LISTEN: Spotify] On Being Dynamic, Ruling Your Self, and Enacting Cheerful Rebellion
20. Reach Truth podcast with @tasshinfogleman – 2 hrs [WATCH: YouTube, LISTEN: Anchor.fm]
21. Tea With @aliterative – 1 hr [LISTEN: Apple, player.fm]
Visa is a thinker who thinks about thinking – I’ve known him for a while on twitter, and I’ve always enjoyed watching the process of him organising thoughts in webs and threads. This episode we talked about enthusiastic nerdery, online selfhood and making connections.
22. Ideamarkets podcast with @harmonylion and James Ellis – [WATCH: YouTube LISTEN: Google, Spotify] – Imagination, Simplicity, Golden Ages.
“By doing something really well, you make it prestigious” / “Every social game has proof-of-work in it” / “It’s funny how simple everything is” / “We valorize geniuses, to everyone’s detriment” / Breaking paradigms / Social media and internet celebrities as leaders of nations / “There’s a thousand Lennons and a thousand McCartneys and they don’t know each other” / “It puts all leadership to shame” / “Thinking of knowledge as a risk management problem” / “People have not woken up to what we can do with social media”
23. A Becoming Creature podcast with @becomingcritter – ~2hrs [LISTEN: Substack, Spotify, Apple]
The key to creating great art (it’s solitude) / The dangers of accessibility and connection / What’s in Visa’s next book, ‘INTROSPECT’ / The questions we should be asking one another
24. The LUE Podcast with Pacifico Soldati – 1 hr 10 mins [LISTEN: theluepodcast.com, Spotify, Google, Apple]
Getting into marketing and content creation / Growing up in Singapore / Making money online / Exciting technological innovations / Shopify, Space, and Solar & Nuclear Power / Wikipedia and The power of hobbyists / Embracing long term thinking as a species / Social trust and building communities / The role of the media in society / Changing how decisions are made / Visa’s roadmap to life optimization / Visa’s book recommendations / Accepting the struggle / The kindest thing anyone has done for Visa
25. MetaLearn with Nasos Papadoupolos – 1 hr 10 minutes [LISTEN: metalearn.net – Apple, Stitcher, Spotify]
How to reframe your ambition so you can succeed your way / How to create content that helps people, makes money and connects you to your tribe / How to market yourself and your work without selling out
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For more, check out my conversations playlist on my YouTube channel!