TheFirstPrinciples

Hi everyone, I'm Jordan Valdiviez, and I think we need to look at more topics from the perspective of first principles. Let's just start with a few easy topics - religion, politics, and culture. Once we're done with those we can move on...This could take a while. And that's the point. ;-)

Jordan gets into the engineering side of things and talks about why first principles thinking is so important when developing technology. Featuring a clip of Elon on the Lex Fridman podcast spilling the beans of how he thinks when it comes to building rockets for SpaceX.

Have you heard people that say "That's the way we've always done it"? We all have, and it's tiring. Our world needs new ideas, creative, intelligent, and significant ones that create progress where we need it most. We also need people that can identify these ideas when they are presented, to identify them as truly profitable and not "threatening to the status quo". Let's push what's possible with first principles thinking.