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Viewing the World Through First Principles
- gjmulhol 13y agoI like what is said here, but this isn't what first principles are. First principles are fundamental laws from which all else can be built. They are the underlying assumption in a proof or the laws of thermodynamics. They are not the hole to the drill or the email to the iPhone. Those are products, results. Like I said, I think the point is right. People focus on the technology rather than the result. This is the principle behind real, Christensen-style disruption (not the buzzword, but the real phenomenon). Sometimes you just need to do something better in a different way, while ignoring the horsepower (or whatever other metric) was the norm for a deprecated reason.