Really fantastic article talking about how every non-fiction book is broken down into 2 things:
1. Principles
2. Techniques
Makes me wonder: can *all* learning essentially be broken down to this at the most fundamental level? What else is missing?
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Techniques seem potentially the same as tactics, but principles seem different than strategy.
Strategy is like a high level plan or approach, whereas a principle feels like a "truth" about the world, closer to a mental model.
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Yeah I think the order of operations goes like:
1. Principles (claims about how things are, how they work, etc)
2. Strategy (overall hypothesis about what to do, based on principles)
3. Techniques/tactics (how to carry out the strategy)
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Feels like for many simple things you could skip strategy and go straight to techniques from principles.
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There will always be two types of consumers of knowledge. People who just want to learn how to cut a tomato *right now* and people who want to learn *the theory behind fruit and vegetable cutting as it applies to the tomato*
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Coincidentally, I've written about the principles of strategy here:
