“And we can do it all by starting from first principles–questioning our assumptions and building something new from the ground up.” Let’s focus on two words: First principles. The concept of ...

Founder of Four Sigmatic - a functional foods company making the world’s most nutrient-dense foods more delicious and easier to consume. In my experience, being an entrepreneur is a constant lesson in ...

What if the secret to solving the world’s most complex problems wasn’t about thinking bigger, but thinking smaller, breaking things down to their most basic truths? This is the power of first ...

Eugene Hayden has worked at Google, KPMG, and Boston Consulting Group. He takes an actual case study from a recent interview and solves it by using first principles thinking. The Big 3 companies want ...

Nick is Global Executive General Manager, Ecosystem at Xero, focused on helping small businesses and app partners grow on Xero’s platform. It’s strange to think today that the iPhone App Store wasn’t ...

The next time I start a college, I’d like to hire Thomas E. Ricks as the provost. Even before Ricks wrote his excellent new volume First Principles, he would have been a strong choice to direct the ...