First Principles Is Not a Magic Trick

A lot of people hear first principles thinking and assume it is some genius trick. It is not. It is just a habit.

A lot of people hear first principles thinking and assume it is some genius trick. It is not.

It is just the habit of breaking a problem down to its most basic truths and rebuilding from there, instead of copying what everyone else does.

You do not need to be a prodigy. You need to get comfortable with the question: why do we do it this way?

Ask better questions

The whole game is asking better questions. Not finding the right answer faster, but questioning whether the question itself is any good.

That is what we train in the cohort. Not speed. Not certainty. Better questions.