first principles thinking
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Jul 21, 2020 positive
Inventing from first principles beats blindly imitating complex industry standards
“Like people imitate others without questioning it enough, but I don't want to learn their ways. I don't want to be like them. So instead I just ignore it all and ask myself, What's the real point? Meaning, like, what am I really trying to do here? What's the r…”