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Every time I read one of these “thinking doesn’t work” blog posts I come away thinking “omg, these people just have no idea how hard it is to think”. IMHO the o
by bjornsing 2y ago
Every time I read one of these “thinking doesn’t work” blog posts I come away thinking “omg, these people just have no idea how hard it is to think”. IMHO the only situation you should be allowed to draw axioms and propositions like little balls with arrows between them is if you’re working in a formal theorem proving system. Anybody who has tried that knows that it’s just not true that the conclusion “startups shouldn’t raise money” logically follows from vague statements like “you’ll be more focused if you don’t have much money”.
- aeternum 2y agoYes, throwing out first principles thinking just because you failed to think about all the first principles is a major error. You can often discover missing first principles by going the other direction. IE what companies were successful largely because they took VC money? If one competitor is taking VC money and another is not, which is more likely to win the market? This article seems to make the common error of destroying a fence before fully understanding why that fence was built.