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Good ideas come from asking how you would solve a problem from first principles, rather than staying anchored on how it is solved today.

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  1. Jeff Dean

    Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research

    you know, because sometimes if you just squint at a problem and you think about not necessarily being anchored on exactly how that problem is solved today, but how you would solve it from first principles, you can come up with really good ideas that are, you know, maybe not what other people are thinking about.

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