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1. disregard short-term bullshit; play for The Ages

2. make friends with the smartest, kindest, most ambitious people on earth <- CURRENTLY HERE

3. create a superhuman amount of wealth simply by routing information through the most valuable social graph in the world
By wealth I don’t necessarily mean money. Introducing one great friend to another is wealth
“Huh? How can you create wealth by introducing people to each other?”

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Visa ✈️ NYC! 🗽 (Apr23-May12)
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a friend told me that I seem to have an uncommon ability to retain/process large amounts of info

I think this is... kinda true, but also... I think people in general underestimate their own capacity for this

what's the difference? I suspect most people have "too many folders"
first of all I actually *fail* to retain/process a lot of info. ask my wife. I am *extremely* scatterbrained. this isn't a humblebrag. I have many of the classic ADHD symptoms and it costs me.

it just so happens that when I'm good, I'm really good. so there's a sort of illusion
If I were forced to summarize my "method" in a soundbite:

I play "association games". I use the canvas of my life as a living memory palace. I "sort" everything through the lens of my interests and curiosities.

While I'm a classic "ENTP", this is actually a game of emotions
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Visa ✈️ NYC! 🗽 (Apr23-May12)
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I only recently discovered that I never actually understood what hyperventilation is.

The instinctive model is something like, “you’re panicking -> breathing too fast -> (?) not enough oxygen?? -> bad??”

But the problem is closer to “exhaling too much -> not enough CO2 -> bad”
I’m still making sense of this, but here is my makeshift understanding:

When you inhale normally, you take in oxygen into your lungs, and it enters your bloodstream

but for this oxygen to go from your blood to your cells, there’s a “trade” process. Oxygen is traded for CO2
When you exhale too much too quickly, your blood might be full of oxygen, but that oxygen doesn’t make it into your cells- because there’s not enough CO2!
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Visakan Veerasamy
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Incidentally, I am pretty obsessed with 22nd century Singapore. I think we have a real shot of becoming one of the most interesting, exciting cities in the world. I’m talking Golden Age shit, like 1000s Baghdad, 1400s Florence, 1860s Vienna. But we have to work to make it happen
As a friend recently put it, you need two core things for a great city to attract ambitious people: great opportunities, and a great story. We have lots of the former, but not nearly as much of the latter. Yet. I’m planning to help fix that
People often talk about Singapore in somewhat stale and sterile terms, and the city itself is sometimes described as such, too. “Oh, you can make money, it’s very clean, it’s very safe.” Yeah ok uncle. I say it’s time to make 🇸🇬 sexy again. We are due for a cultural awakening
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