Thinking

First Principles

Boil things down to the most fundamental truths and reason up from there.

2026-04-21T00:00:00Z 1 min read

First principles thinking is the act of boiling a process down to the fundamental parts that you know are true and building up from there. It prevents you from relying on analogy or accepted "best practices" and instead forces you to uncover the absolute root truths.