korrents

Our readingWhat is a korrent?

Reasoning from first principles means gathering only what one knows to be true and building a conclusion from it.

Drawn from what Tim Urban said

What this subject means

mental models Thinking tools borrowed across disciplines: inversion, second-order effects, circles of competence, probabilities, incentives.

First principles

Which mental models help you think better?under our view: Good ideas come from first principles, not from what you heard

What Tim Urban actually said

  1. Tim Urban Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why
    A scientist gathers together only what he or she knows to be true—the first principles—and uses those as the puzzle pieces with which to construct a conclusion.

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Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.

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