#8 — Visakan Veerasamy on how to make friends on the internet

Li Jin and Nathan Baschez interview Visakan Veerasamy -- writer, thinker, creator who is using the internet to inspire "friendly ambitious nerds." He uses Twitter as a sort of second brain, organizing his ideas in an ever-expanding corpus of interlinked threads. He’s written several books that he sells directly to his fans on Gumroad, and, this year, he’s focusing on growing his YouTube channel.In this interview, we talk to Visakan about:His journey to being a creatorHow he conceptualized his target audience — the “friendly ambitious nerd”What software tools he usesHow he monetizes, and whyHis take on Substack, Pateron, Gumroad, Youtube and eBooks vs CoursesShow theme music: Compassion by Stefan Kartenberg