Quote Reason from first principles rather than analogy - Elon Musk 💯 Framework // Concept // Mental Model How First Principle Thinking Can Help You Build Better Products Introduction To build great products, product managers need to think about the problems they are trying to solve in a deep and meaningful way. One tool that can be used to achieve this is first-principle thinking.
This is great, and another example was the 1987 America's Cup challenger from San Francisco. An actual rocket scientist (Alberto Calderon) looked at the keel of a boat and realized it was one foil that had two functions...so instead of doing that, he designed a boat that had two foils, and each one tackled just one function. Mind you it was completely undrivable in the real world, but another version of principle thinking!
This is great, and another example was the 1987 America's Cup challenger from San Francisco. An actual rocket scientist (Alberto Calderon) looked at the keel of a boat and realized it was one foil that had two functions...so instead of doing that, he designed a boat that had two foils, and each one tackled just one function. Mind you it was completely undrivable in the real world, but another version of principle thinking!