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The Ultimate Guide To First Principles Thinking
Reasoning by analogy, or copying what others are doing, is sort of like being a cover band where you’re playing somebody else’s music. Whereas with first-principles thinking, you go back to the fundamental raw materials of music, which are the notes, and then you build an original song from scratch. That is first-principles thinking.
Lenny Rachitsky • First-Principles Thinking
First-principles thinking, or thinking from first principles, sounds a lot more complicated than it is. It’s simply a technique for approaching problems with a beginner’s mind. Instead of working within assumptions and what people around you “know” to be true, you do the hard work of figuring out what’s actually true and, thus, what’s truly possibl... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • First-Principles Thinking
First principles are the foundational truths you need to grasp in order to build up any theory or idea. If we can cut through conventional wisdom and reason from first principles, we can inform our decisions using better insights about the world around us.
Jay Acunzo • Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work
A first principle is a basic assumption that cannot be deduced any further. Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle defined a first principle as “the first basis from which a thing is known.”
First principles thinking is a fancy way of saying “think like a scientist.” Scientists don’t assume anything. They start with questions like, What are we absol... See more
First principles thinking is a fancy way of saying “think like a scientist.” Scientists don’t assume anything. They start with questions like, What are we absol... See more
James Clear • First Principles: Elon Musk on the Power of Thinking for Yourself
Start With First Principles
First-principles thinking is one of the best ways to understand complicated problems. Understand the root cause of why something works (or doesn't), so you can adapt it to your problem and build great experiences.
1FS Blog, First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge (2016)
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... See moreFirst principles is a problem-solving technique where you break down complex problems into their most basic and fundamental parts. Instead of building on existing assumptions and knowledge, you start from the ground up, questioning everything and identifying the core components that cannot be reduced any further. By understanding these basic elemen... See more