Yes, 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 fi

Yes, 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.