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Fresh Minds Enable Breakthroughs
- Bringing new teams with different perspectives can enable breakthroughs that incremental improvements cannot.
- Longstanding problems sometimes need fresh minds, not just deeper iterations on the same approach.
The 90-Year-Old Originator
- The scientist who first proposed the fusion idea 60 years ago still worked at the lab and celebrated the new milestone at age 90.
- He immediately wanted to make the result even better, showing continuous curiosity and drive.
Build From First Principles
- First principles thinking breaks problems into their most basic elements and rebuilds solutions from the ground up.
- This avoids reasoning by analogy and opens creative, non-incremental paths to solve hard problems.