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Zero Principal Thinking, Good Title
After Braintree Venmo, I set my mind to the question of what single thing can I do that would maximally increase the probability that the human race thrives beyond what we can even imagine. And so when someone says from a first principal's perspective, and they're trying to assume the fewest number of things within a given timeframe. So if you take, for example, I can Sherlock Holmes, he's a first principal stinker. Once you've eliminated the impossible, anything that remains, however improbable, is true.