Author: Ali

First Principles Thinking

“If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.”  Einstein In life, a person with fewer blindspots wins. Removing blind spot means, see, understand and move close to reality.  If we never take something apart, test our assumptions about it and reconstruct it, we end up believing what others tell us, trapped in that way how always things are done.  Anything which is not law of nature is a shared belief. Like money.  Analogy Thinking: In normal day life we reason by analogy because it is easier. Reasoning by analogy is by compare two objects with respect to their similarity. “We are doing this because it is like something else what was done”  “It is like what other people are doing”  copy what works don’t try to re-invent the wheel identify and apply the best features from other solutions good artists borrow and great artists steal First Principles Thinking:  A way of thinking in which you break down things to their fundamental truths and reason up …

Hello World

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. Learning never exhausts the mind. Art is never finished, only abandoned.