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10. "Colleges have become status-stamping machines."

Use the $100K+ you were going to spend on college to start a business.

You'll learn 10X more. And you won't go woke.

[Masato]

11. "Nothing will attract people to you as much as your values."

• Stand for something
• Build a freaking movement

Life is too short to be mediocre.

[Masato]

12. "It’s rare for intelligence and drive to intersect in one person. When they do, look out."

Hang around obsessed people.

Judge intelligence based on whether people get what they want in life.

Memorizing information = Stupidity

[Masato]

13. "If you have secret information, secret police, and secret courts, you are ruled by a secret government."

• Reject online censorship
• All the info on UFOs should be public
• Demand secrets like the JFK files are released

[Masato]

14. "The most interesting people in tech are the autistic tinkerers."

ADHD & Autism are often superpowers.

[Masato]

15. "Leaders come and leaders go, but don’t change the rules of the game.

Censorship is changing the rules of the game.

Lawfare is changing the rules of the game.

Importing voters is changing the rules of the game.

Time to change the people who are changing the rules of the game." – Naval

[Masato]

16. "Pay the world whatever it takes to leave you alone to think."

True wealth is free time to do whatever you want.

If you have no time to think you're worse than bankrupt. And mental illness will creep in.

[Masato]

17. "The smarter you are, the faster you see through any given game."

Don't play stupid games with stupid stubborn people.