Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Reasoning from first principles means taking the basic raw ingredients as the building blocks and working upward from them.
Drawn from what Tim Urban said
What these subjects mean
taste Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.
mental models Thinking tools borrowed across disciplines: inversion, second-order effects, circles of competence, probabilities, incentives.
Mental modelFirst principles
On the topicWhich mental models help you think better?under our view: Good ideas come from first principles, not from what you heard