Vilson Vieira

First principles thinking is a powerful tool but it needs to be rooted in battle-tested axioms and used together with pattern matching, otherwise it can fails miserably.

https://commoncog.com/how-first-principles-thinking-fails/

How First Principles Thinking Fails

Thinking is split roughly into pattern matching against experience, and reasoning from first principles. Here's one argument for why you need both.

Commoncog
Jan 2, 2023 at 2:37pmWeb