"First principles don't just give you an answer for a very specific situation. First principle gives me something that is actually true for anywhere it's applied. If someone asks me a very specific question, I can give them a very specific answer — the problem with that is, only if somebody asks me that exact same question do they have the answer. First principles give you something true for the whole class of questions."
A reasoning approach that finds the foundational truth of a problem — true regardless of context — rather than memorizing specific answers to specific situations.
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Jeff Moss
Founder, Expansion Playbooks. A decade studying customer retention and expansion data from 75+ recurring revenue businesses.