non-solipsistic introspection
"Always Describe a Path to Success" means - in its most practical form - "Do not leave a meeting without letting everyone there know what they are expected to do/deliver next."
What It Is and What It Is not, make truth-telling your business.
retweet is the a way to credit the idea originator
The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project
First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge
“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”
“the first basis from which a thing is known.”
“Not everyone that’s a coach is really a coach. Some of them are just play stealers.”
Musk would identify the play stealer as the person who reasons by analogy, and the coach as someone who reasons by first principles.
The difference between reasoning by first principles and reasoning by analogy is like the difference between being a chef and being a cook. If the cook lost the recipe, he’d be screwed. The chef, on the other hand, understands the flavor profiles and combinations at such a fundamental level that he doesn’t even use a recipe.
So much of what we believe is based on some authority figure telling us that something is true.
If you outright reject dogma, you often become a problem: a student who is always pestering the teacher.
Adapting to change is an incredibly hard thing to do when it comes into conflict with the very thing that caused so much success.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
If we never learn to take something apart, test the assumptions, and reconstruct it, we end up trapped in what other people tell us
When it comes down to it, everything that is not a law of nature is just a shared belief. Money is a shared belief. So is a border. So are bitcoins. The list goes on.
something that used to be true but isn’t true anymore