Amjad Masad

Try to predict where the future is headed.

Be plugged in enough to figure out where the future is headed.

Like follow the tech news, follow the trends and form a

prediction about the future and then and then bet on that and then evaluate that over time and continue to like figure out like when you hear about a new thing don't be cynical about it like you hear about like you know a lot of my generation like heard about Bitcoin a lot of them I was like what is this

But if you pay a little bit of attention, you're like, okay, and you understand the system, you understand that this is an alternative asset to cash.

A lot of people are looking for alternative assets and so you have some hypothesis about the future.

So have some predictions and some beliefs about the future and try to bet behind them.

And again, most importantly, build things.

I think that's the best way to gain wealth is to build useful things.

A lot of my peers in Silicon Valley have this like very mechanistic view of life.

They think of humans as, you know, meat robots.

And I think fundamentally, I think there's something more than that.

There's something, there's some spark about consciousness, about humanity that's different and that's special and that life is important.

Maybe it's a religious view, but even without like a very concrete religious view, you can arrive at the same answer by just being perceptive, like just looking at the world around you, like how can...

how can this all be an accident?

Like just, like even through science, like when you look at, you know, I see these videos of like how DNAs work and just like this,

insane micro, like nano engineering.

It doesn't feel like an accident.

So there's something about the mystery of life, the mystery of creation, the mystery of why we're here that I try to struggle with.

And I think a lot of people in Silicon Valley, a lot of people in tech have this very dry physicalist view.