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I need a definitive list of examples of how thinking from first principles led to a better outcome than thinking from analogies, and vice versa, and then make up my mind about what should be my default mode of thinking. that's 1st-p thinking applied to this problem right?

Cedric Chin

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So ... I did a two-parter on exactly this: commoncog.com/how-first-prin

commoncog.com

The Games People Play With Cash Flow

One way that first principles thinking fails is when you build your analysis up from a deficient set of base principles. Everything is correct and true, but you still end up mistaken. Here's how that...

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oh, awesome! I now see in the small subtitle text that it's about 1st-p thinking - I think I might have seen this post circulating but passed it by when I saw the title was about cash flow 😅 poor rapid judgement