First Principles: Elon Musk on the Power of Thinking for Yourself
Entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk use a single unifying principle for decision-making Jeff Bezos: “Does this make the customer experience better?” Elon Musk: “Does this help us get to Mars?”
Balaji S. Srinivasan • Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 519
The paradox of teaching entrepreneurship is that such a formula necessarily cannot exist; because every innovation is new and unique, no authority can prescribe in concrete terms how to be innovative. Indeed, the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about... See more
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Occam’s razor cuts through the clutter that often gets in the way of first-principles thinking. The most elegant theories rest on the fewest assumptions. The most elegant solutions, the rocket scientist David Murray writes, “use the least number of components to solve the greatest number of problems.”
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Five Simple Notions that Solve Problems
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