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"I think its important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy." -- Elon Musk Maybe this guy is the next Elon Musk? Jokes aside, isn't reasonin
by lhnz 11y ago
"I think its important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy." -- Elon Musk
Maybe this guy is the next Elon Musk?
Jokes aside, isn't reasoning from first principles about going deeper and deeper to understand the root causes of problems, before working back from them? This seems foundational to problem-solving, but not necessarily an element of leadership.
- adwn 11y ago> Maybe this guy is the next Elon Musk? More likely, this guy read the same quote by Elon Musk.
- lhnz 11y agoYes, I think so. I'm being unfair really, it's just that 'first principles' always makes it sound like somebody thinks of themselves as Euclid or Elon Musk. It's nice to hear somebody else's perspectives otherwise.
- meric 11y agoHey, I think it was a pretty obvious idea. In high school, preparing for physics exams, rather than memorising all the formulas, I worked on figuring them out based on some root principles, on the fly. So every exam I spent the first 10 minutes reading the exam and deriving all the formulas I gathered I needed on the back of the answer booklet. It was a lot more effective than memorising which type of questions needed which formula. Like maybe 15 years ago my dad wanted to teach me maths and he kept repeating the importance of learning the 'first principles'. I didn't get a word he was saying at the time, but looking back, he had the idea too.
- TuringTest 11y agoMaybe the point is that leadership works better when it's approached as problem-solving, rather than from passion or authority.