@visakanv – ❤️ friendly, ambitious nerd ⚡️

I was a lonely, isolated misfit of a nerd growing up, and I taught myself how to make friends. I got pretty good at it.

Last updated 13 Apr 2026 . What is the essence of human flourishing? My current favorite starting point for introducing people to my thinking is a blogpost titled The Library Ethos , which I believe communicates the core of my personality and my vision: libraries are one of the things civilization got really really right, and they are a great model for thinking about how to make excellent tools and spaces for human flourishing. After that, check out We Were Voyagers and Are you serious? on my Substack, Frame Studies . I’d like to help build the greatest social graph of friendly, ambitiou

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