first-principles-thinking

Core principle: Strip away assumptions, conventions, and analogies. Reduce everything to the fundamental truths you know to be true, then rebuild from there. Most thinking is by analogy — "we do it this way because that's how it's done." First principles asks: why is it done that way at all?

Step 1: Identify the Current Belief or Solution State clearly what is currently assumed, accepted, or proposed:

Step 2: Challenge Every Assumption For each element of the current approach, ask:

每当用户质疑设计、策略或解决方案是否从根本上正确——而不仅仅是执行良好时，就应用第一原则思维。触发诸如“我们正在解决正确的问题吗？”、“为什么我们这样做？”、“这是最好的方法吗？”、“每个人都这样做，但我们应该这样做吗？”、“我们一直都是这样做的”、“挑战我们的假设”、“从头开始”、“有更好的方法吗？”等短语，或者当用户似乎在有缺陷的前提上迭代而不是质疑前提本身时。当提议的解决方案感觉像是对可能从根本上被破坏的事物进行增量改进时也会触发。不要优化有缺陷的基础——首先要质疑它。 来源：andurilcode/skills。