The Students (@0xthestudents)

2026.10.20 18:26

Technology Doesn't Just Happen @DanielleFong, CEO of @lightcellenergy, talks about invention—how new technology depends on specific individuals, successfully not burning down the science shed while doing the early experiments, taking advantage of AI energy demand, and more. 0:00 — Intro 1:18 — Technology is not inevitable 5:22 — How Lightcell Energy became feasible 13:47 — The uses of theory, design, and experiment 20:26 — How better instruments and tooling fuels invention 27:07 — AI and the electrical grid 35:46 — How commercial demand interacts with inventor ideology 45:01 — Weaponize your weirdness 52:49 — What are your macros? 1:00:17 — Geothermal energy

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The Students@0xthestudents

2026.10.16 19:21

Every Ideology Starts as a Book Club Duncan Umphrey and @benlandautaylor cover the power of book clubs, how and why you should start your own, and how new ideologies develop from these seeds. 0:00 — Intro 1:23 — Book groups as ideological foundation 9:50 — Building the social fabric 18:04 — Building social fabric vs consuming social fabric 25:19 — The mechanics of starting a book group 28:46 — Organizing around a vision 33:27 — Deciding what to read 41:29 — The case study method for research strategy 46:25 — What do you do with philosophical questions? 50:09 — Where new ideologies come from 57:32 — The Intellectual waterfall: How ideas are popularized 59:38 — The roadmap for building a new movement