Toan Truong

I homeschooled, graduated at 16 and got my bachelor's at 18. Now writing about big ideas in education, learning science, and sociology. Founder @GeniusGTX

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

I'm 18.

I’m obsessed with learning how to learn.

So, I spent 200+ hours studying how geniuses, prodigies, and high performers master their disciplines.

Here's what I found on how to master anything faster:

[AI Evolution @AiEvolutio58513]

Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale on what people said when they started building for defense:

"20 years ago, when I was founding Palantir with Dr. Karp, we had dozens of meetings with people asking, 'Why are you building in defense?' Are you some kind of aliens?"

"His hair wasn't as crazy back then."

Today defense tech is one of the hottest corners of Silicon Valley.

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Ron Baron says SpaceX will be worth $20 to $50 trillion in 10 years, and Elon Musk told him that's "way low":

"I think it'll be worth $20 trillion, $30 trillion, $50 trillion. Elon thinks I'm way low, and it's now $2 trillion."

"I think Starlink alone, in the next 10 years, is going to be worth somewhere around $14 trillion or $15 trillion."

"And then the data centers in space—man, that's unbelievable. You can't build them on the planet anymore."

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[AI Evolution @AiEvolutio58513]

Elon Musk says your phone plan could soon come from SpaceX:

"You should be able to have a Starlink, like you have an AT&T or T-Mobile or Verizon or whatever, you could have an account with Starlink that works with your Starlink antenna at home with free Wi-Fi as well as on your phone."

He isn't trying to wipe out the carriers:

"We're not going to put the other carriers out of business. They're still going to be around because they own a lot of spectrum."

The catch is the phone itself:

"It will allow SpaceX to deliver high bandwidth connectivity directly from the satellites to the phones, but there are hardware changes that need to happen in the phone."

The end goal, in one line:

"You should be able to watch videos anywhere on your phone."

One bill. Home Wi-Fi and mobile. Straight from orbit.

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[Steve Hare @sharemath]

Students who can't solve math problems - with pencil and paper and on their own - aren't learning math.

They're just learning 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 math.

[Nickitruesdell @nickitruesdell]

Please everyone read the Little House books. All of them. With your kids or grandkids. This year.

Don’t say, “We watch the TV show.” Read the actual books. They are a national treasure.

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

@DrClaireEdu I've always been curious on how hands parents should be in the kid's homescholing day-to-day. And when should the kid actually get the authority to choose their career path and the big decision.

[Dr. Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️ @DrClaireEdu]

To be competitive today, kids don’t need a transcript. They need a portfolio.

I’ve been thinking a LOT about high school. Knowledge is still king -- but it's no longer enough.

I want my kids building real things. Growing businesses. Things of value.

A few weeks ago, an 18-year-old landed a job at SpaceX because he built things that mattered, posted the work publicly, and created a living portfolio.

As college degrees wan in rigor, my kids need a different way to stand out in a crowded field.

Kids need a portfolio. Not a transcript.

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

@APompliano socializing is the only moat for school

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Any piece of math is pretty simple if you have your prerequisites in place. It doesn't matter how advanced the math is. Having your prerequisites in place makes all the difference.

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

A college professor who says she's taught for 12 years says most of her incoming students read at a FIFTH or SIXTH grade level..

"Many of them are functionally illiterate." She says they can't focus for more than five minutes and know almost nothing about history, politics or culture.”

"I no longer feel like I'm teaching college courses. I feel like I'm teaching middle school classes, and many students still fail."

She's a millennial and admits every generation says this. Her answer is that this time "feels very different."

What in the world has happened to our education system in America..!?

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Intellectual obesity is what happens when you consume too much and produce too little.

[An @andotvu]

I’m hiring for instructors at a frontier AI lab!

The job is to teach enterprise engineers how to be great FDEs via full-day cohorts in SF/NYC/London. Pay is competitive + expenses are covered.

If you’ve built in enterprise or have taught before please dm!

[AI Evolution @AiEvolutio58513]

Elon Musk explains why a comet, not an asteroid, is the real threat to life on Earth:

"Earth does not currently have any ability to stop asteroids. Now, with Starship, we then have some ability to stop an asteroid."

"Technically, a comet would be the real danger. There are billions, maybe trillions of objects in the outer solar system. Some of them are very long-period comets that we simply don't know exist."

He points to Jupiter:

"The comet Shoemaker-Levy, when that hit Jupiter, it made a hole in Jupiter the size of Earth. So if that did hit Earth, it's game over. Everything's dead."

His answer:

"The probable lifespan of life is just much greater if we're a multiplanet and ultimately a multistellar civilization."

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In 2014, Elon Musk started a school called Ad Astra inside SpaceX headquarters to teach kids to think from first principles.

In rare footage, he walks them through it:

"Let's look at the physics and economics of a rocket..."

The method: don't accept that something is impossible because others failed at it. Break the problem down to what physics and materials actually allow, then reason up from there.

It's the same thinking that made reusable rockets real at SpaceX.

He built the company on it, then built a school to hand it to the next generation.

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[GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX]

Peter Thiel’s advice to his younger self: "Value substance over status."

"One of the resolutions I came up with a number of years ago was to always value substance over status, substance over prestige.

And if I was giving my younger self advice on what to do or how to think about one's life, I probably would still go to Stanford, might still go to law school.

But I'd ask a lot more questions: why I was doing these things?

Too much of it was driven by prestige and status, and not quite enough about really the substance of trying to learn things.

I sort of think of it as this sort of crazy rolling quarter life crisis, and a sort of culmination in this big New York law firm where from the outside everybody wanted to get in, from the inside everybody wanted to get out.

I lasted seven months and three days.

And when I left, one of the people down the hall said, it's so reassuring to see you leave, Peter.

I had no idea it was possible to escape from Alcatraz. And all you had to do was go through the front door.

But people's identities get so wrapped up in the things they compete for that it was inconceivable for people to actually do that.

And then the question was, how had I ended up there? Why had I not thought about that more?

And I think it was that I had taken too many of these shortcuts of valuing what was prestigious, what was conventional, over what I really wanted to do.

So I think always substance over status."

[AI Evolution @AiEvolutio58513]

Jeff Bezos explains why even the people building AI keep getting surprised by it:

"Large language models in their current form are not inventions, they're discoveries."

"The telescope was an invention, but looking through it at Jupiter, knowing that it had moons was a discovery."

"We know exactly what happens with a 787. It's an engineered object."

"Large language models are much more like discoveries. We're constantly getting surprised by their capabilities."

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[Founders School @alpha_founders]

A lot of people try to make money with AI by vibe-coding apps nobody wants.

They spend months building, only to be left with zero customers and huge losses.

In this video, @nateliason shares the 4-step framework to make $10k with AI (even if you have ZERO business experience).

0:00 Stop vibe coding apps
0:45 How I’d make my first $10K with AI from scratch
1:08 The 4 steps overview
1:29 Founders School + the $10K challenge
2:31 Step 1: Pick a skill (copywriting, short-form, SEO/AEO)
5:09 Price it at $2,000
5:37 Use AI for 80–90% of the work
7:16 Step 2: Practice in public
9:38 Step 3: The proof pitch
13:11 Step 4: Delight + ask for referrals
15:00 Recap + comment GUIDE

[AI Evolution @AiEvolutio58513]

Elon Musk explains why, measured against the sun's energy, human civilization barely exists at all:

"Right now we're very low on the Kardashev one scale. If you say what proportion of our planet's power are we harnessing, it's a very, very tiny number. And we're harnessing almost nothing of our star's power."

"The sun is about 99.86% of all mass in the solar system. Most of the remaining 0.14% is Jupiter. The entire mass of Earth is in the tiny miscellaneous category. Earth is a tiny dust mote compared to the sun."

"We currently use much less than a trillionth of the power output of the sun, and a trillion is a million times a million."

His verdict:

"On the Kardashev scale, we're still non-existent. We're not registering."

Every data center, every power plant, every city on Earth adds up to a rounding error next to the star we orbit.

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[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

@ItsMeBenChan Yeah before all this happened 😂 I was on a world tour ans had to fly back