Idea Name
Context / Source
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish #141 Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
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Key Idea
Getting first principles
Novice —> Looks at things simplistically Intermediate —> Complexity Experts —> Simplicity
are in a high I. Q. Zone that it feels like cheating when you get simple answers uh and you’re like and therefore when I tweet or you treat people like oh you’re like oversimplifying and grossly non wants. But it’s not sometimes the truth is as simple as it gets. Speaker 1: I always think of things as being you know there’s simple but not necessarily simplistic. And so when when you’re a novice and you look at a problem it’s simplistic. I can solve world hunger, I can do this and then as you dive in it’s really freaking complicated right? There’s all these things you didn’t think of. And then on the other side of that complexity is simplicity and I think of that as simplicity. On the other side
See also
First principles (concept) The Fundamentals will always apply