{"id":13866,"date":"2020-02-06T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=13866"},"modified":"2023-05-03T16:14:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T08:14:56","slug":"friendly-ambitious-nerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/friendly-ambitious-nerd\/","title":{"rendered":"friendly ambitious nerd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My first book, <strong>FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD<\/strong>, is now available for sale! <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gum.co\/FANbook\">gum.co\/FANbook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"my ebook is live, and 265 people have bought it already! \ud83e\udd70\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/56qCVfpjV0I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You may also be interested in reading about <a href=\"http:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/friendlynerdbook\">the marketing behind FAN<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/visakanv.com\/blog\/fan2000\">post I wrote at 2,000 sales<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of November 2022 I&#8217;m starting to write FAN 2.0. I&#8217;m thinking I could maybe put together a list of all of the blogposts that were in v1.0. I have some notes on a reddit post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s an example of a giant internet treatise that lays out a whole worldview and an associated deep problem?&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1518483032306782208\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[cracks knuckles] ok let me try and fit FAN into this frame. The big world problem is, in a handful of words: fragmentation, disorientation, disillusionment, alienation, loneliness, distrust, despair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FAN is a kind of bottom-up chaos-surfing syncretic MMA-dance to address the above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why don\u2019t I just adopt any of the other existing frameworks? well i tried everything I could find, and nothing ever quite worked for me, so my thing is just my personal remix of all the other things. The big things people often seem to miss are humor, irreverence, communion, service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to put it in terms of other people\u2019s work, if that helps, I\u2019m largely remixing Alan Watts, Emerson, Joseph Campbell and Nietzsche. Mr. Rogers, George Carlin. And ok fine some Jesus and Buddha; look those guys <em>were<\/em> on to some good shit but we don\u2019t have to get weird about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>another way of framing all of this is\u2026 live your life like you\u2019re in a heroic anime\/jrpg. Make friends. Help people on their side quests. Earn their trust and loyalty. Triumph together with the power of friendship for the benefit of all. Help the old lady find her frying pan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The frying pan side quests are very important!!! It\u2019s always the mfs who think that they\u2019re too busy to help the old ladies who end up weirdly twisted; they\u2019ve drunk their own kool-aid. we are just a bunch of anxious monke on big spinny rock in infinite space. help the old lady<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>back to the FAN model: the cool thing about the 3-pronged approach is that you don\u2019t have to overdo any one thing too much to the point that you get pwned by it\u2019s dark side. It not only encourages you to not take yourself too seriously, it encourages you to <em>switch modes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here I think there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/950178328459149312\">something about my background<\/a> that makes me different than a lot of others. 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