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YB
@yb
I'll be honest, I don't actually get what it means to think from "first principles". like is the whole idea to keep on asking "why" till you get to the core layer of the question? how do u do this in an efficient way? and how do u avoid tricking urself into believing ur thinking critically vs actually doing it
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Callum Wanderloots ✨
@wanderloots.eth
Hmm I think it’s actually the opposite from diving deeper into the question. In math and physics, you’d return to the most basic equations and operations and build up from there. Eg with farcaster solutions, don’t start thinking about building a client, go back to the protocol primitives and build up, not down
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Sam (crazy candle person) ✦
@samantha
It just seems like “core values” repackaged for the masses to me. I forgot where I read this, but once you start calling yourself “good”, everything you do is “good”.
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tyler ↑
@thehilker.eth
That's my understanding of it, yeah. I think in layers/fundamentals, symptoms/diagnoses, assumptions/facts, etc. Why *that* — why not something else? — not just why. Not sure about efficiency, other than practice and learning to spot common layers & fundamentals.
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scorz
@scorz.eth
I think it’s like don’t take shortcuts, reason through things yourself. Don’t just go off how people tell you things works. Like in this thread I was trying to reason about the effect of interest rates from first principles https://warpcast.com/scorz.eth/0x1345efbb
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@qt
It's a reminder to keep your mental models refreshed imo. Getting to the atomized foundations is a good way to do that. Sometimes it's easy to forget fundaments and get lost in incrementals. Good questions, and I like this article: https://fs.blog/first-principles/
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shloked
@shloked
Elon's biography provides a bunch of great practical examples - from how he thinks of rocket components to his "algorithm"
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