Amjad Masad

You can cast almost any problem in life as a...

coding problem.

And I thought, okay, I'm going to hack into a school and change my grades from when they fail me for attendance to like a passing grade.

So I spent two, three weeks in my parents' home in the basement trying to like break into the systems there.

I would like work on like scripts and do network scans and all that.

And I implemented polyphasic sleeping.

Do you know that?

That sounds familiar.

What is that?

Michelangelo, you know, the inventor, artists, one of the most highest output human beings in history probably ever to come.

would sleep 15 minutes every four hours because he was working nonstop.

Tesla did a similar thing, I remember.

Tesla's probably, yeah, did that as well.

And so I was like, yeah, I want to be able to work a lot and really hard and be really efficient.

So I did that as well.

So for two weeks, just madness, just going and trying to map out the system and figure all that out.

Um, so I finally found a vulnerability, a way to, to get into, uh, to, to the system.

But I was worried about maybe I didn't have the right systems.

And so I had a neighbor who was going to the same school as me.

I was like, Hey, you know, I have this, this, this thing that I can change grades to.