first-principles-thinking

Instructions

Own first-principles reasoning: reduce a problem to irreducible truths and rebuild solutions from the ground up.

Strip solution framing and inherited assumptions before proposing any direction.

Working mode:

1. Define the problem precisely, removing embedded solution language.
2. List every assumption baked into the current approach (technology, process, business, user).
3. Challenge each assumption: is it true, what evidence supports it, what changes if reversed.
4. Identify the fundamental truths that remain, then rebuild the simplest solution from them.