The public is insufficiently educated on how to be a good public
The public is insufficiently educated on how to be a good public. I think this is civilisation-specific (ie not an issue for e
2018 bookmarks
📱 media / internet best tech reads https://substack.com/profile/2417812-packy-mccormick/note/c-14475201 what do you h
salaryman suspicions
my 6-month hiatus from salaryman life has confirmed a lot of my suspicions about myself there are many layers to this I was wo
hire me (2018)
Hire me (Check 2019 notebook for more details) What I can do for you Speaking engagements I have emceed several weddings, co-w
LKY
Friends from abroad often ask me for suggested readings re: Lee Kuan Yew. I recommend starting by reading The Art Of Charlie C
writer master plan
Oct: Writer Master Plan I’ve been doing some soul-searching and I’ve concluded that the one thing I want to do wit
Speaking
I thought it would be interesting to make a list of notable events where I’ve spoken at. I’ve emceed 2 weddings. I
electricity
How electricity works We live in an electric world – lightning is electricity, electric currents run through our bodies. ele
WWE
I remember when I was a young child – maybe five or six years old – when I first watched WWE on TV. (At the time it was ca
dan dennett
Dan Dennett Notes
russell barker
russell barker add – do I want to do a blogpost about this? yes Revisit his videos… Russell Barker Executive function self
Naughty Boy
Naughty Boy: Under-table Scribblings Of A Recalcitrant Joker is a collection of poems by blogger and entrepreneur Visakan Veer
Communities
This blogpost started out as a bunch of notes and links, and I found myself sharing it with people over and over again so much
day 4 of free agent life
2018 Jul3 – Day 4 of free agent life: I went to bed at about 230am last night. I was somewhat disappointed in mys
what i look for in a writer
in a marketing context signals I like – using a domain rather than gmail. but of course, totally understandable if someone
ecommerce growth plans
(abandoned draft) Last week, I wrote about my own journey as an ecommerce retailer and how we built our business from cringe-i
sheryl sandberg 2012 HBS speech
sheryl sandberg 2012 HBS speech Full transcript
saas marketing struggles
Brief: what should a saas marketer be prepared for? A window into the experiences (good/bad) that you’ve had as a market
sitemap
This is a test post that I might use to list out all the posts on visakanv.com. I’m wondering if visakanv.com might be a
timing like a state
We have colonized time just the way we have colonized space – and our wild, natural rhythms are in a sense contained and imp
jamming studios
The first jamming studio that was a significant part of my life was some dingy place in Clarke Quay. I don’t remember the na
train station
Train Man, what a long day it had been. So many terribly written emails to respond to. So many arrows to siam. Another day. No
think bigger
Every so often I encounter something that pulls me out of the box that I’m currently in. It’s 2:51pm and I’m really slee
reorient
At my last 1-1 with Dinesh we were talking about quicker reorientation after failure. We were talking about my motivations, an
todo
funwork 2nov2023 movies twitter intended to watch: citizen kane (10< space odyssey (6), seven samurai (5), howl’s moving
making sense of bullshit-ville
To be born into modern human civilization is both a great privilege (for the safety and opportunities it provides) and a rathe
DR wedding speech
Thank you everybody for being here on this pleasant day, to witness our friends writing the next chapter of their lives.
todo
(feb2015 draft of a page from @1000wordvomits) I think one of the things that keeps me procrastinating is the fact that I have
Why I Am A Marketer
This is a quick and dirty draft I wrote while at work. There’s this Italian guy on TED- Ernesto Sirolli who said there are t
words that are pretty and useful
puerile magnate marquis credo quasar savant vehement ostensible irrevocable celestial sobriqueted veritable pervasive eviscera
Notes from Seth Godin’s talk at Google
I was watching a talk that Seth Godin gave at Google in 2007. It was uploaded on jul 16, about 3 weeks after the first generat
notes from Anthony Robbins TED talk
Immersion why, what is your motivation today? invisible force of internal drive emotion is the force of life effective people/
Links useful to me when studying as a Private A Level Candidate
(This post is incomplete but I just gotta put it out there) Once you’ve picked your subjects, I think the most important
unsorted-thoughts-2
RELATIONSHIP HACKS: 1: It is remarkably difficult to have an unproductive argument while you’re walking together, and/or
unsorted thoughts
PRACTICAL EVERYDAY LOGIC: I’ve been thinking that there ought to be a universal “practical everyday logic” e
sia girls makeup
Wait, why is a Perspective writer writing about fashion stuff? Well, fashion can be pretty serious business, ya know.&nbs
10 Facets of Gamification
Achievement: A badge, a level, a reward, or points given to a person for accomplishing something. Levels: Breaking a storyline
Decluttering my bookmarks
First I’m listing them all out. With reasons. No good reason, delete. Quora: Quora: What could a 20 year old do to impro
How do atheists cope with the moments of despair and loss in their lives?
This is an answer I posted on Quora.com which I am particularly proud of. Atheism:Â How do atheists cope with the moments of d
building the story
an idea has been tossing around my head for years and years and I plan to get started on it after my a’s- which is to wr
flies
so few people left on livejournal sticking around is vastly underrated as a competitive strategy
Standard Deviation
Standard deviation is a measure of statistical dispersion. It’s the square root of variance. We take the square root bec
How I’m studying as an ‘A’ Levels Private Candidate
After choosing my subjects, the first thing I wanted to do was to get very intimately acquainted with my syllabus. It’s
Studying H2 Literature as a Private Candidate, pt 1
First of all, after making the decision to do H2 Literature, I have to pick my texts. Here are my choices: Section B: Prose *
Thinking about Pete Wentz
I’m thinking about Pete Wentz before I go to bed. I follow him on Twitter. Why? I suppose because he was the bassist and
W17D2- a teacher’s passion
I’ve decided to make it a point to start writing something every day. This is not a new decision but it’s another
W11D2: Acquiring and Filling New Meters
I’m noticing an increase in hits coming from people searching for information on students taking their A Levels as priva
Language Is Beautifully Flawed
Language is a beautiful creature, full of redundancies and flaws. Every word of every language carries with it thousands of ye
Taking your GCE ‘A’ Levels as a Private Candidate
Someone dropped by my Tumblr to ask me to write a post about my experience re-taking my A Levels as a private candidate. Here
secret
I secretly worry that I am a burden to my friends, that they don’t want to hear anything from me, that they get annoyed
dream
I want to come home from tampines. I take a bus 10 from somewhere near the interchange. I don’t remember where exactly I
wisdom (teeth)
So I pulled my two left wisdom teeth today. I only had 2 cigarettes yesterday- I wasn’t feeling so well, so it was more
learning
an important thing I’m learning, I think, or trying to learn, and trying to embody, is that we have to treat our “
Why does altruism exist?
Here’s my shaky hypothesis, which I put together from many casual (and possibly flawed) readings of several different so
haha cause sometimes I forget the real reason why I am going to an university and getting an education. ~sidetrack; I believe
Hey Visa, I just wanted to thank you for sharing your thoughts and your philosophies on life in your blog! Sometimes, I forgot
A List Of My Favourite Things: Movies
Movies: 20: X-Men: First Class 19: Monty Python and the Holy Grail 18: Scent of a Woman 17: Love, Actually 16: The Incredibles
Loyalty to country vs. Loyalty to humanity
“No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.”
sitting in the silence
Lately as an atheist I find it exceedingly unnecessarily and even counter-intuitive to even speak of atheism, or of religion.
“hello! Just wanted to tell you that I love your blog! I love its ingenuity, creativity, eloquence, and maturity! Singap
The Path Of A Double Pendulum
Look at that. Isn’t that beautiful? Doesn’t it look chaotic, and yet strangely elegant? This is the path of a doub
7sins: Envy
(image courtesy of blackeri) What is lust? Lust is fundamentally about conquest. Nobody lusts after what they already have.
xav on me being kind in conflict
“It’s fun to be wrong, especially if the person taking you down does so professionally on a nice practice mat, ins
2012
I didn’t want to do anything for new year’s. I didn’t want to spend money unnecessarily, because lately I
dear anybody who’s having a rough time
you can talk to me! please do.
The Man Who Will Not Drive
There once was a guy who swore he’d never ever buy a car. After all, he reasoned, all cars eventually break down and fai
i miss the people who have left i never told them how much they mattered to me
don’t be a sucker
(original title: Occupy Wall Street: What do you do when the odds are stacked against you?) Wall St shouldn’t be screwin
On productivity, evolution and conversations
I often pay lipservice to productivity, and I’ll be the first one to acknowledge it. It’s mostly in an attempt to
Dealing with depression, in yourself or in others
I’m always a little suspicious of the “do whatever works” argument, because sometimes what works only works
“Why do you love me?”
Individuals are far too vast to be reduced to a few factors- we feel more than we can know, and we know more than we can expre
What do you do if you are a self-fulfilling prophet?
What is the pragmatic course of action to take when you are aware that your prediction about the future (to simplify it) is go
Can the Self be localized in the brain?
When you say “all of the self can be localised in the brain”, i’m interested in what you mean by “loca
you can never completely know yourself.
It’s never possible to throw up a bunch of measurable or quantifiable elements and equate them to ‘the Self’
On staying awake and giving a damn.
I used to be able to stay awake in secondary school, at least most of the time. There were moments where I’d drift into
The 3 Practical Things We Need To Teach Our Kids
We need to teach kids Operacy- that is, how to function effectively, how to operate as a human being. Bodily functions are rar
rambles for progress
More rambling time. Let’s contemplate the evolution of social ideas for a bit- how cultural shifts happen. They’re
A Reader whose life you have improved.
I would like to say that i like your stuff. I like what your thoughts and philosophy about how we are all interconnected and h
utilizing decisive bursts
I’ve had some rather unique NS experiences. One of them involved me and my colleagues spending many hours with penknives
explaining my love for self-correcting mechanisms, philosophy and systems
Stereotypical geniuses have highly developed self-correcting mechanisms. They learn from their mistakes and avoid repeating th
The passing of Steve Jobs, and what it means for the rest of us
I woke up this morning to messages that Steve Jobs was dead. I wasn’t entirely surprised to hear it- we know he’s
smoking in jc
I picked up smoking sometime around my O Levels, when I was 16- but I never really bought my own cigarettes and carried them a
thoughts on illness, immune systems and weekend warriors
I think I fall sick more often than my peers. I’m not completely sure of this, I don’t have enough data to be conc
nothing to say
Torn between wanting to seek out and ruminate with every last person I have any spiritual affinity with, and throwing myself i
misery and effective decision making
Time and time again I find myself staring into space, overwhelmed with so many choices and options that I end up doing absolut
transactive memory and being a part of something greater
I like to think that almost every single thing in the universe is a part of something greater than itself, and I think as soci
On regrets, fragility, certainty and forks in the road
Do you have any regrets? It’s one of those questions that’s thrown around so often that we don’t really thin
everything and nothing
It’s amazing, frustrating and humbling how easily I fall back into the same old routines and problems when I haven’
The Problem With Practical Logic
Some people consider themselves logical because they’re systematic, but they tend to begin from faulty premises and indu
live for others
scrolling through my friendslist, posting comments, a cheer-up here, a hang-in-there there, a =) here, and cheers there. i mea
the rogue and the pastor’s daughter
The young pastor’s daughter reaches out to the wounded rogue, who cringes and shifts aside. “Stay away from me,” he snar
The Old About Me
My name is Visakan Veerasamy. I am a Singaporean, born and bred. I am proud of my country despite its shortcomings. I believe