Ep 373: Deepak VS and the Man Behind His Face

He's an entrepreneur who thinks deeply about the world, and some of his ideas could make your brain explode. Deepak VS joins Amit Varma in episode 373 of The Seen and the Unseen to share his thoughts on entrepreneurship, education, morality, life and the old hag who sits on your chest.

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Also check out:
1. Deepak VS at Twitter, LinkedIn and his own website.
2. Tilt.
3. Everything flows: Looking back on six years of Tilt -- Deepak VS.
4. Deepak VS on why incubators are broken.
5. Y Combinator.
6. This Be The Verse — Philip Larkin.
7. The Double ‘Thank-You’ Moment — John Stossel.
8. 4chan.
9. Praise for intelligence can undermine children's motivation and performance -- Claudia Mueller and Carol Dweck.
10. Nomsita MS Haritashya on Instagram.
11. Fixing Indian Education — Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan).
12. Tim Minchin on Wikipedia, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and his own website.
13. In a Silent Way — Episode 316 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Gaurav Chintamani).
14. Gaurav Chintamani on Instagram..
15. Natasha Badhwar Lives the Examined Life — Episode 301 of The Seen and the Unseen.
16. Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin -- Episode 405 of the Lex Fridman Podcast.
17. The Beauty of Finance -- Episode 21 of Everything is Everything.
18. Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking on Amazon.
19. Rohini Nilekani Pays It Forward — Episode 317 of The Seen and the Unseen.
20. Zero to One -- Peter Thiel.
21. Angad Daryani at Praan, LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter..
22. Ship of Theseus.
23. Dangerous Dave.
24. Swapna Liddle and the Many Shades of Delhi — Episode 367 of The Seen and the Unseen.
25. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — Ludwig Wittgenstein.
26. On Exactitude in Science — Jorge Luis Borges.
27. Anatomy of a Folly -- Amit Varma.
28. History of European Morals — WEH Lecky.
29. The Expanding Circle — Peter Singer.
30. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil — Hannah Arendt.
31. The Ethics of Vegetarianism -- An interview with Peter Singer where he talks about oysters.
32. Rahul Matthan Seeks the Protocol — Episode 360 of The Seen and the Unseen.
33. Essays — Paul Graham.
34. Free Will -- Sam Harris.
35. Determined: Life Without Free Will -- Robert Sapolsky.
36. Behave -- Robert Saponsky.
37. The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas -- Ursula K LeGuin.
38. The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant — Nick Bostrom.
39. Vitalik Buterin Fights the Dragon-Tyrant — Episode 342 of The Seen and the Unseen.
40. Pour Some Sugar on Me -- Amit Varma.
41. The Last Lecture -- Randy Pausch.
42. Poker and Life -- Episode 38 of Everything is Everything.
43. Sudhir Sarnobat Works to Understand the World — Episode 350 of The Seen and the Unseen..
44. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen featuring Ramachandra Guha: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
45. Lucid Dreaming.
46. Sleep Paralysis.
47. The Night Hag.
48. Devangshu Datta Traded His Corduroy Pants — Episode 348 of The Seen and the Unseen.
49. The Brothers Karamazov --  Fyodor Dostoevsky.
50. House of the Dead -- Fyodor Dostoevsky.
51. Titus Andronicus -- William Shakespeare.
52. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track -- Richard Feynman.
53. One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
54. Quichotte -- Salman Rushdie.
55. We -- Yevgeny Zamyatin.
56. PG Wodehouse on Amazon and Wikipedia.
57. Storm -- Tim Minchin.
58. The Egg -- Andy Weir.
59. Lifespan -- David Sinclair.
60. Ash Jogalekar's tweet on Chandrasekhar, Fermi and von Neumann.
61. How Family Firms Evolve -- Episode 34 of Everything is Everything.
62. Suyash Rai Embraces India’s Complexity -- Episode 307 of The Seen and the Unseen.

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Episode art: ‘Chal Hut’ by Simahina.