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First Principles Thinking

A problem-solving approach that starts from the most basic, verifiable truths about a situation rather than from convention or analogy, then reasons upward to a course of action.

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Dianne Penn 00:40:13
… Um so I think some of those traits number one is first principles thinking and this is really uh rather than pattern matching what you used to do in let's say consumer product or B2B SAS um but actually figuring out in this ...
Cat Wu 00:20:03
… I think the the most important thing is to be able to to to have this like first principles thinking, where you can figure out how the tech landscape is changing, what the team really needs from you, and to like jump in and fix that…
Tomer Cohen 2.0 00:00:00
In order to stay competitive, you actually have to go back to some first principles, go back to the drawing board and reimagine what it means to be building.
Dylan Field 2.0 00:24:15
… clear in the way you answer these questions is you're very curious, open-minded, very interested in learning other people's perspectives. Something I often hear about you and I can clearly see you as a very original thinker, some call a…
Eoghan McCabe 01:05:20
… I think there's one other thing which is part to our approach was this deeply first principles thinking methodology almost to a fault, although I don't think it's a fault. I and we would create frameworks for everything.
Hilary Gridley 00:32:04
… the tactic here is to help your teams kind of build a mental model of everyone in the company that matters so that it's... The way you put it almost is when they're emailing them or asking for something, they already know how they're…
Tobi Lütke 00:50:11
… First principles thinking starts from, I think Elon puts it as physics, which I think is a little bit atoms-coded. I think just from the atomic building blocks really is a right starting point.
Tobi Lütke 00:25:55
Yeah. I mean, I think that's correct.
J.M. Nickels 00:22:35
… (00:24:55): The other thing I would say though is people always talk about first principles thinking, but if there's truth in it, I think that's like when Elon's like, "Well, why does the rocket cost a gazillion dollars to launch? And…
Dharmesh Shah 00:00:57
… my guest is Dharmesh Shah. Dharmesh is the co-founder and CTO of HubSpot and also one of the most fascinating and first principled thinkers I've ever met.
Sam Schillace 00:14:49
… You can't talk about first-principles thinking without quoting Elon, telling stories of Elon. But essentially, it's just, okay, how much would it cost to make this if we were to start over and not...
Failure 00:28:36
… I sort of misunderstood or misjudged companies sometimes by thinking about them really focused on the product execution. If you find an interesting problem that people care about and you solve that problem in a really beautiful, elegant,…
Brian Chesky 00:47:22
And we might call this first principle thinking. What are the foundational elements that comprise this problem and how can we reconstruct them?
Lane Shackleton 00:15:52
… I think it's an awesome example of first principles thinking, which I see a lot come out from your product team. And then just to make sure I heard you right, these five stages are roughly the same across role,...
Geoff Charles 00:45:40
And so it's really important when you're dealing with something that hasn't been done before to think from first principles. And what I mean by that is you don't pattern match from your past experience, but you go back to the fundamentals…
Melissa Tan 01:06:34
… First principles thinking, I think of it as you are not using a set framework and set formula, but you're creating your own based on the context that you're getting. And so wh...
Aarthi Ramamurthy 01:14:55
… also the other tool I think I really like is first principles thinking. Everyone throws it out there, it's kind of become this cliche now, but really think about it as if your product didn't exist and if you had to start...
Nickey Skarstad00:45:02
… about? Or do you do something else?

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