First Principles

💭 First principles thinking boils things down to the most fundamental truths

Ask yourself, what am I sure is true?” … and then reason up from there.

Elon Musk described this as follows:

Somebody could say, “Battery packs are costly, and that’s just the way they will always be… Historically, it has cost $600 per kilowatt-hour. It’s not going to be much better than that in the future.”

With the first principles, you say, “What are t…