Summary of Keynote
- Be curious and have role models to lookup to:
- Define them and learn from them
- Risk Taking:
- When your young, you don't have much to lose
- Don't have high expectations
- View failure as a good teacher that gives lessons
- Focus on what you really believe in and not what others expect from you
- Make sure your bets don't destroy you
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"Your failures don't matter, as long it's manageable" ~Vinod Khosla
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The Future:
- Find things that can be massively reinvented using via technology
- Inequality and climate change
- What Chamath Spends time reading daily:
- Blogs (Vinod Khosla), wikipedia, scientific paper, articles
- 3-4 hours daily
- Working in Silicon Valley?
- Interesting place full of special people
- Work on meaningful products
- Take risks and learn
- If you feel Lost:
- Define your self worth: What success means to you, how you are wired and function
- Define what success means to you
- Bitcoin:
- Uncorrelated hedge
- As trillions of dollars get pumped into society, you need crypto as a hedge
- Blockchain is going to be the future
- Social Media in future:
- Same long term problems just as tobacco
- People don't realize what the long term consequences are